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Sportsman (Melbourne) 26 Apr. 2/7: What wi’ their red lights, aod green lights, and fog, and colour blindness tbe old bag of tricks is nothing but a blooming collidoscope.at whole bag of tricks, the, n.
Sportsman (Melbourne) 26 Apr. 2/7: What wi’ their red lights, aod green lights, and fog, and colour blindness tbe old bag of tricks is nothing but a blooming collidoscope. Sportsman (Melbourne) 8 Feb. 2/5: ‘This whisky is aa hot as lava,’ said the immature stranger [...] ‘What else did ye expect? [...] didn’t you ask for a drop of tlie crater’.at creature, the, n.
Sportsman (Melbourne) 19 July 2/3: [H]e fired one of Gaunt’s best bracelets into the stage door [but] he saw her come out and go off to supper with another Johnny.at johnny, n.1
Sportsman (Melbourne) 22 Mar. 2/7: As Finnigan, armed with a key-bugio, was snorting out ‘The Harp that Once’ [...] the neighbours began to ‘kick’.at kick, v.1
Sportsman (Melbourne) 22 Feb. 2/4: ‘You lie so easily,’ was the reply. And then the two men got mixed.at mix, v.
Sportsman (Melbourne) 8 Feb. 2/5: The worthy official gazed [...] in a ‘sorter’ helpless way.at sort of, phr.
Sportsman (Melbourne) 12 Apr. 2.5: A shooting exhibition, in which a man pegged way with a pistol at a small cardboard target.at peg away (v.) under peg, v.2
Sportsman (Melbourne) 29 Aug. 2/6: That blanky thief, Moses Lazarus.at blanky, adj.
Sportsman (Melbourne) 29 Aug. 2/6: ‘Why. that was Moses Lazarus himself’ [...] ‘Blimy d’you think I didn't know it?’.at blimey!, excl.
Sportsman (Melbourne) 3 Jan. 2/5: There was a ‘calico ball’ lately [...] at which the line of social distinction wax not too strictly drawn, and Mary Jane Slavey had penniaeion to go.at calico ball (n.) under calico, adj.
Sportsman (Melbourne) 22 Aug. 2/5: You require a close study of Houdens ‘Tricks at Cards’ to [...] hold your own at the ‘little games’ played in an aristocratic suburb. Even the ‘coal deck’ is not unknown.at cold deck, n.
Sportsman (Melbourne) 3 Oct. 2/6: [A] fellow who had been ‘Kissing the baby’ too freely on Saturday night was looking through the window [...] saw three yellow hansom cabs in succession pass by.at kiss the babe (v.) under kiss, v.
Sportsman (Melbourne) 26 Aug. 1/2: Commotion (9st. 12lb.) is such a 'battler' over any distance that he cannot be considered 'out' of any race with anything under 10st. on his back.at battler (n.) under battle, v.
Sportsman (Melbourne) 14 Oct. 1/6: Claptrap is repeating the
swallow-catching proclivities which he
displayed prior to Martini-Henry's Cup.at swallow-catcher, n.
Sportsman (Melbourne) 31 July 7/8: My cobber came back to Melbourne disgusted at his mozzel. When we totted it up one night in Auckland, we found the trip had cost us A Couple of Hundred.at cobber, n.2
Sportsman (Melbourne) 31 July 7/8: My cobber came back to Melbourne disgusted at his mozzel. When we totted it up one night in Auckland, we found the trip had cost us A Couple of Hundred.at mozzle, n.
Sportsman (Melbourne) 9 May 19/4: [T]he club has put a stop to the ‘ringing in’ business, by making nominators take an ‘Alfred David’ [...] that their nomination has complied with the conditions set forth in the entry form.at alfred david, n.
Sportsman (Melbourne) 10 Jan. 3/1: Joe [...] made an offer to Stop Fitz in Four Rounds without training a day, and counted out £100 as a forfeit to make good a match for £1000. O’Malley [...] could only produce to 8s., so this ardent follower of Fitz had to ‘take water.’ Joe is a hard one to bluff.at take water (v.) under water, n.1
Sporting Sketches in Sportsman (Melbourne) (18/10/1898) 5/7: ‘All what yer seems to git is the blankety grit in yer daisy-cutters’.at blankety, adj.
Sporting Sketches in Sportsman (Melbourne) (18/10/1898) 5/8: ‘He laid five and six to four on the field when the square bleaters were bettin’ evens’.at bleater, n.2
Sporting Sketches in Sportsman (Melbourne) (18/10/1898) 5/7: ‘Why, lord lumme! we could git the stuff ’ere [...] like makin’ bally ’ay’.at cor lumme! (excl.) under cor!, excl.
Sporting Sketches in Sportsman (Melbourne) (18/10/1898) 5/7: ‘I taps a bloke rather ’ard-like [...] on ’is perishin’ crumpet’.at crumpet, n.
Sporting Sketches in Sportsman (Melbourne) (18/10/1898) 5/7: ‘This Arscit [i.e. Ascot race track] aint such a fair beano [...] when yer ain’t got nothink in yer sky or in yer darby-kelly’.at darby kelly, n.
Sporting Sketches in Sportsman (Melbourne) (18/10/1898) 5/8: ‘Oh! yes: very ’ot indeed is Pinky’.at hot, adj.
Sporting Sketches in Sportsman (Melbourne) (18/10/1898) 5/7: ‘When they’re done in [...] you don’t feel at all isle o’ wight’.at Isle of Wight, adj.
Sportsman (Melbourne) 6 Aug. 2/3: The fourth round saw some forceful exchanges, and countering from the recoil of one of which Wright reached the kamptulicon for a whiel.at kamptulicon, n.
Sporting Sketches in Sportsman (Melbourne) (18/10/1898) 5/8: ‘He stood up [...] to make a snide book on the furst race with no brass at all in his kicksy’.at kick, n.4
Sporting Sketches in Sportsman (Melbourne) (18/10/1898) 5/7: ‘No, strike me silly sideways, this Arscit [i.e. Ascot race track] now ain’t what it used ter be’.at strike me silly! (excl.) under strike me...!, excl.
Sporting Sketches in Sportsman (Melbourne) (18/10/1898) 5/8: ‘Two “splits” who ’ad a nark agen Pinky and they sez [...] “We won’t have bad characters like you bettin’ ’ere”’’.at nark, n.1
Sporting Sketches in Sportsman (Melbourne) (18/10/1898) 5/8: ‘He ’ad just given the office to the bloke with the pencil’.at give (someone) the office (v.) under office, n.
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