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[Aus] Dly Herald (Adelaide) 20 Aug. 15/3: ‘Ah me! I’m his bonzer tart! Ah me! Ah me!’‘You are! You are! My bontoshter bit of fluff!’.
at bontoshter, adj.
[Aus] Dly Herald (Adelaide) 20 Aug. 15/3: ‘I’m goin’ to chuck this an’ go back to her; she’s the bonzerest little tart I ever saw’.
at bonzer, adj.
[Aus] Dly Herald (Adelaide) 11 Apr. 7/5: If some of the old-time Corinthians could see a present-day boxing contest and contrast it with the fight-to-a-finish grass fights of the time when the prize ring was at its very zenith.
at grass-fighter (n.) under grass, n.1
[Aus] Dly Herald (Adelaide) 10 Dec. 10/2: And yet some rude strangers have been known to call ours the slowly city and Tortoise town!
at Tortoise Town, n.
[Aus] Dly Herald (Adelaide) 17 Sept. 4/2: [W]ith [a] hearty Australian grip of the hand bid welcome to the distinguished representatives from the mother of British Parliaments.
at Australian grip (n.) under Australian, adj.
[Aus] Dly Herald (Adelaide) 21 Jul. 4/5: Somebody is said to have called out, ‘Go on, Jim. Get into it. I’m having a bog in this.’ Another man replied, ‘No you’re not.’ The two wrestled together along the footpath to the corner.
at bog-in, n.1
[Aus] Dly Herald (Adelaide) 10 Jan. 4/8: One night he had been winning heavily and the youngster, with his usual rashness, had gone a raker and lost.
at go a raker (v.) under raker, n.2
[Aus] Dly Herald (Adelaide) 29 Aug. 4/8: ‘King Dick’. The ejection of Mr Hill from the House of Assembly caused quite a sensation.
at king dick, n.2
[Aus] football chant in Dly Herald (Adelaide) 25 Aug. 2/3: Any plum! Any pud! Any Wee Georgie Wood, / Is Clem. Dayman any good.
at any Wee Georgie (Wood)?, phr.
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