![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia")
Arrow (Sydney) 4 Nov. n.p.: [headline] ‘SCRAPPO.’ / The Sydney ‘Bulletin,’ in the course of a scurrilous attack on the ‘Sydney Times’ [...] expressed its disapproval of the contents of the ‘Times’ .at scrappo, n.
Arrow (Sydney) 4 Nov. n.p.: [headline] ‘SCRAPPO.’ / The Sydney ‘Bulletin,’ in the course of a scurrilous attack on the ‘Sydney Times’ [...] expressed its disapproval of the contents of the ‘Times’ . Arrow (Sydney) 25 May 1/4: Jinks: ‘What's a septic tank?’ Binks: ‘Oh it means a beer-guzzler what don’t believe in no religion at all!’.at beer-guzzler (n.) under beer, n.
Arrow (Sydney) 14 Sept. 4/4: Australia. She’s growing greater and more grand, / But still she is the Great Loan land.at Loan Land, n.
Arrow (Sydney) 1 May 9/1: Old Bontodger is a good old chap, and has helped many a lame dog over a stile, an the saying is; but he always says: ‘I do like gratitood!’ [...] The name is not in the directory, but there are Bontodgers everywhere.at bontodger, n.
Arrow (Sydney) 19 Jan. 5/4: Cracksman Jim broke in, crib-cracking was his lay, / Reached the hall, saw Robert’s boots, and gasped, ‘A rozzer! Here’s a go!’.at cracksman, n.1
Arrow (Sydney) 20 Apr. 7/1: There was no excuse for Belle Blue, and as to E.L.O., he made a run on the rails which looked like danger, and then died on It.at die on it (v.) under die, v.
Arrow (Sydney) 19 Sept. 9/2: ‘One day last week I nearly caught a fish here that was that long. It was a Boskerino Bontodger. He got off!’.at boskerino, adj.
Arrow (Sydney) 2 July 9/2: Fancy, me haggling with the broken-nosed skipper of a broad-beamed Scowegian for a tow.at Scowegian, n.
Arrow (Sydney) 4 May 8/3: The black, velvet-faced, light tweed coat, and the huge plate-sized buttons and ‘roarty’ air of the stage London hawker.at rorty, adj.
Arrow (Sydney) 23 Dec. 1/1: The ‘Kamp-Kult,’ as this body of male flappers describes itself [...] holds high revel, not, as might be assumed, in the vicinity of its members’ nightly perambulations, amid the bright lights of King’s Cross, but in a western suburb, far removed.at camp, adj.
Arrow (Sydney) 27 Nov. 4/3: A jury says that Bill is guilty, and a Judge sends him ‘down the chute’ for six months.at down the chute (adj.) under chute, n.
Arrow (Sydney) 2 Oct. 16/1: Where To Fish. WOY WOY: Whiting on live nippers and worms from moored boats and on prawns and worms drifting along edges of flats.at nipper, n.4
Arrow (Sydney) 27 Nov. 4/1: Bill Jones is quite a notoriety in the neighborhood. He is a liar, a thief, and [...] is not above trying a bit of thuggery. The community knows him as a ne’er-do-well, the police as the one most likely to have a hand in the latest robbery.at notoriety, n.
Arrow (Sydney) 23 Dec. 4/1: [of gay men] The dancing of some of the ‘she-he’s’ was delightful.at she-he (n.) under she, n.
Arrow (Sydney) 23 Dec. 4/1: [of gay men] They addressed each other as ‘Marie’ or ‘Sybil.’ [...] and there were frequent references as to how ‘tradiing’ was going.at trade, v.
Arrow (Sydney) 29 July 9/2: His display was of the barmaid’s blush variety — Port Wine with much lemonade.at barmaid’s blush, n.1
Arrow (Sydney) 19 Feb. 6/1: [headline] Unlicensed Hotels Are Hot-Beds Of Iniquity / Women Gold-Diggers Fleece Indiscreet Males.at gold-digger, n.1
Arrow (Sydney) 8 Jan. 5/4: During supper Mona flirted outrageously with Mavis, and Mavis’s ‘husband’ Edna was too drunk to notice. Soon Mona and Mavis disappeared into the bedroom, and the door was shut behind them.at husband, n.
Arrow (Sydney) 15 Apr. 16/4: The Wedge one [a horse] made a proper job of the Newcastle Tommies. Some of them are still paying out.at make a job (v.) under job, n.2
Arrow (Sydney) 8 Jan. 5/1: Lesbianism is the term applied to intercourse between two women, one being aggressive, and acting the role of a ‘husband,’ the other being the ‘wife’ .at wife, n.
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