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Sun (Kalgoorlie, WA) 26 May 5/8: In a few moments he became aware that a couple of the pedallers he had passed were after him, and being a fair sprinter he ‘ducked his nut’ and gat.at duck the nut (v.) under duck, v.1
Sun (Kalgoorlie, WA) 26 May 5/8: In a few moments he became aware that a couple of the pedallers he had passed were after him, and being a fair sprinter he ‘ducked his nut’ and gat. Sun (Kalgoorlie) 3 June 3/3: You don’t come along down to train, and strike me up a pear tree what am I to do with you.at strike me up a tree! (excl.) under strike me...!, excl.
Sun (Kalgoorlie) 19 May 4/5: [H]is jokelet fell among them with the thud of a pork chop thrown into a crowded synagogue.at in more strife than a pork chop at a synagogue under pork chop at a Jewish wedding, phr.
Sun (Kalgoorlie, WA) 10 Feb. 1/1: They Say [...] That a Forrest Street boozing barn is becoming known as the ‘shambles.’ [...] That the proprietor runs amuch [sic] on an average once a week. That the consequent battles ‘Royal’ never fail to supply subjects for the surgical ward.at boozing barn (n.) under booze, v.
Sun (Kalgoorlie, WA) 20 Jan. 1/6: His affected doubts [...] would be very quickly dispelled if he could see some of the letters that have been received, at this office [...] ‘Only one fault about it,’ writes one approving reader, ‘it ought to have been written months ago.’ ‘Rock it in,’ remarks another.at rock in (v.) under rock, v.3
Sun (Kalgoorlie, WA) 14 Dec. 5/4: To Correspondents [...] T. Lyon Weiss. — The Sun has no time for you. Get your head read.at get your head read! (excl.) under head, n.
Sun (Kalgoorlie) 11 Oct. 3/3: ‘Strike me green, yer — . Me mob orter take teryer’.at strike me green! (excl.) under strike me...!, excl.
Sun (Kalgoorlie) 13 Sept. 4/4: ‘I see,’ observed a sport, who has just just returned from the racing carnival, ‘that a sporting writer calls the Kanowna course ‘the Onkaparinga of W.A.’’ His friend shook a few pounds of ironstone dust out of the clothes he was preparing to put in a box. ‘I dunno about the ‘Paringa’ part,’ he grunted, ‘but he’s perfectly correct as regards the ‘Onkus’!’.at onkus, adj.
Sun (Kalgoorlie) 16 Oct. 7/3: Prof. Tucker was consulted, and after the stupendous grey matter in his bone-box had been brought to bear on the question, it was decided to lay out the boodle on a scholarship for poets. Rats!at bone box, n.
Sun (Kalgoorlie) 10 Apr. 3/4: ‘O, me little Warrior pets, you are the bonzas. Tike the Railways ’ome to their mothers, strike me red, white, blue, and bandy, they can’t beat eggs!’.at strike me blue! (excl.) under strike me...!, excl.
Sun (Kalgoorlie) 10 Apr. 3/4: ‘Strike me cock-eyed, mate,’ he continued (and he shuddered as he spoke), ‘be the time the season’s over the blankers’ll be as big as elephants’.at strike me cock-eyed! (excl.) under strike me...!, excl.
Sun (Kalgoorlie) 7 May. 1/1: [They say] That the flaunting females from Paree and Brussels are thereby much agranoyed.at aggranoy, v.
Sun (Kalgoorlie) 15 Jan. 2/3: The classic language of some turf scribes! A contemporary heads a par ‘Betsy Burke a Bobby-Dazzler’! Why not ‘Best Man a Bontoshter,’ or ‘Rathsel a Ripping Snorter?’.at bontoshter, n.
Sun (Kalgoorlie, WA) 29 Oct. 6/2: Jerry and Johnny have taken over a hash-house, which they think will be a good spec. if they get out of work.at hash-house, n.
Sun (Kalgoorlie) 8 Oct. 4/8: Well, ‘ere we are again; all bright an’ shinin’ like a new pin, s’elp me bob. I told yer all six moon ago that I was goin’ ter put away all th’ onkus mob an’ the crookies; an spare me days I’m ‘having another shot at the mungs this time once again.at onkus, adj.
Sun (Kalgoorlie) 5 Nov. 12/3: One of the peds in question construed my remarks to infer that the whole lot were what is called, in the parlance of sport, ‘onkus’.at onkus, adj.
Sun (Kalgoorlie, WA) 12 Mar. 2/5: Industry, Tom Garvey's bay, ran a real rotter in the Hampton Hurdles [...] ‘I thought you said he could jump,’ asked his rider [...] ‘Why, the blanker ran through every hurdle’.at rotter, n.1
Sun (Kalgoorlie) 12 Feb. 7/4: There’s a good deal of snorting down here over the Australian Eleven. All sporting chaps agree that it’s a ‘shyser’ team, and the ashes will stay on the other side this trip .at shicer, n.
Sun (Kalgoorlie) 29 Oct. 6/2: He is always rousing on poor old Plain Bill about using his knife instead of his fork, and declares he will be taken for a sword-swallower.at sword-swallower (n.) under sword, n.
Sun (Kalgoorlie, WA) 3 June 9/2: ‘The Sun’ shudders at the bare thought of a member of that revered Chamber being dunned and doing a ‘Dinny Hayser’ up the main thoroughfure of Kalgoorlie.at do a dinny (v.) under dinnyhazer, n.
Sun (Kalgoorlie) 11 Nov. 11/3: The doctor is invariably seen in public wearing dog-poisoners, and affects the air of the good old English Enquire accustomed to much hat-touching from the tenantry.at dog-stiffeners (n.) under dogs, n.1
Sun (Kalgoorlie, WA) 19 Aug. 4/3: [headline] Schlog It On.at schlog it on, v.
Sun (Kalgoorlie) 11 Mar. 3/5: Whoever heard of a fight which some one or other did not stigmatise as a schlenter? I have heard nearly a score of ‘sports’ say that the fight was ‘onkus’ - that Thorn did not get hit hard enough to out him; that he went down to it, etc.at onkus, adj.
Sun (Kalgoorlie) 16 Dec. 9/2: [S]he started to smite the unfortunate schnapper-seller hip and thigh, ‘I’ll teach yer to sell onkus fish (bang), yer dirty Dago (bash). Me old pot belted me for a cooking of it for his tea (smack), and me thinking it was fresh (biff)’.at onkus, adj.
Sun (Kalgoorlie, WA) 22 Apr. 7/4: One somewhat youthful ‘Belt’ publican [...] is playing it up like the Watsons — ‘drag’ parties and suppers. Beware, take care!at Watsons, the, n.
Sun (Kalgoorlie, WA) 2 June 4/7: You should ’a heard me flingin’ around the fibs / They print upon the Abo-Liar’s page.at aboliar, n.
Sun (Kalgoorlie) 31 Mar. 7/2: The latest abbreviation of a new slang word ‘bonz’ was applied to the splendid supper provided by the ladies.at bonze, adj.
Sun (Kalgoorlie) 14 July 7/7: Two eight-year-olds, male and female, playing the ancient game of marbles in Cumberland-street, Kookynie. Boy, after a good shot which almost skinned the ring: ‘‘E’s a bonzer tor, ain’t ’e?’ Girl: ‘A fair boshter’ .at boshter, n.
Sun (Kalgoorlie, WA) 6 Sept. 4/7: [A] large checked cloth cap. or ‘fore’-n-after,’ and a screaming suit of ‘reach-me-downs’.at fore ’n’ after, n.
Sun (Kalgoorlie, WA) 2 Aug. 1/1: They Say [...] That a junior Boulder electrical switcher considered himself the glossiest glassy at the recent rinking carnival.at glassy (alley), the, n.
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