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Ballarat Star (Vic.) 25 July 4/1: The defendant gave an animated version of the story, saying ‘it was a dead suck in, my lord,’ as the bullock was not worth anything but the value of his hide.at suck-in, n.
Ballarat Star (Vic.) 25 July 4/1: The defendant gave an animated version of the story, saying ‘it was a dead suck in, my lord,’ as the bullock was not worth anything but the value of his hide. Ballarat Star (Vic.) 18 July 1/2: ‘Little Billy’ or ‘Billy the hiver’, (slang for pockmarked) .at hiver, n.1
Ballarat Star (Vic.) 19 Nov. 4/2: Witness proceeded to say that she screamed out blue murder; and that she was so frightened that she scarcely remembered anything.at scream blue murder (v.) under blue murder, n.
Ballarat Star (Vic.) 18 Mar. 1/5: Some persons seem to have regarded the occurrence of this calamity as a convenient opportunity for what, in the expressive language of slang, is called ‘sloping’.at slope, v.2
Ballarat Star (Vic.) 12 Oct. 2/3: [He] enlivened the severity of his morality by playful appeals to his ‘word of honor as a gentleman,’ and by even more mercurial shouts of ‘jumpin’ Moses’.at jumping Moses!, excl.
Ballarat Star (Vic.) 26 June 1/3: [S]irectors who know enough of mining not to be bamboozled by scientific slang,.at bamboozle, v.
Ballarat Star (Vic.) 28 Aug. 2/5: The prisoner, it appears, is respectably connected in England, and is described by the detectives as being about the cleverest ‘hotel barber’ ever known in the city.at hotel barber (n.) under hotel, n.
Ballarat Star (Vic) 24 Apr. 2/4: What must be the effect upon the larrikin and larrikiness order of mind!at larrikin, n.
Ballarat Star (Vic.) 15 June 3/1: [T]he Chief Secretary had [...] taken all the tall poppies into his camp. If he found anybody likely to take a lead in the House—any one gathering a following about him —he took him in.at tall poppy (n.) under tall, adj.
Ballarat Star (Vic.) 2 Sept. 4/1: The Legislature have decreed before he can purchase the land he requires a sham process of selection must be gone through and hence the ‘tiddley-winking’ resorted to.at tiddleywink, v.
Ballarat Star (Vic) 1 May 2/6: For a long time he languished in the limited atmosphere of Mr Castieau’s s hotel, but a judge of the Supreme Court has opened its doors to him, and a [...] he will no doubt change his lodgings in the course of the evening.at Castieau’s hotel, n.
Ballarat Star (Vic.) 13 July 4/8: Never within the memory of the most frosty-faced old battler have the probable results of the Grand National events been so much unshrouded in uncertainty.at battler (n.) under battle, v.
Ballarat Star (Vic.) 25 Dec. 4/6: [of a racehorse] At the time I did not know Hollowback from a ... bar of soap.at not know (B) from a bar of soap (v.) under not know..., v.
Ballarat Star (Vic.) 3 MAy 2/7: In connection with the rescue work of the Salvation Army, two ‘Hallelujah hawkers,’ repiesenting six different rescue homes in Victoria, are at present visiting Ballarat.at hallelujah-hawking (n.) under hallelujah, adj.
Ballarat Star (Vic.) 19 Mar. 4/5: I have heard under the lap that they intend to play up £25,000, and if it comes off with them they will not be back for Caulfield.at under the lap (adv.) under lap, n.1
Ballarat Star (Vic.) 25 Nov. 4/3: Everything is reported to he in applie pie order, and a great success is predicted.at apple-pie order, n.
Ballarat Star (Vic) 30 Dec. 2/1: Tommy Atkins is inclined to play cricket - but bush football for the Aussielander!at Aussie, n.
Ballarat Star (Vic.) 22 July 10/1: Better our dear own flapper girls / Than the boasted ones, of U.S.A. / For why?—for why?—sure I don't know / [...] / Why are our flappers ‘just the pong?’ / Well—mm!—oh, ask me something easy.at just the pong under pong, n.1
Ballarat Star (Vic.) 16 Jan. 10/4: Evidence was given by a plain clothes constable, who stated that Nixon was the centre of a crowd of people in Flinders Lane, near Elizabeth street, on Monday morning. People were placing money on the colors upon the calico, and Nixon would roll the roller and the color corresponding to that showing on the roller would collect the odds marked thereon. He stated that he was of the opinion that the game was a game of chance.at barber’s pole (n.) under barber, n.1
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