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Newsletter (Sydney) 13 OCt. 11: But one of these men appears to be losing his head, and the miners now call his hotel ‘The Blood House’.at blood house (n.) under blood, n.1
Newsletter (Sydney) 13 OCt. 11: But one of these men appears to be losing his head, and the miners now call his hotel ‘The Blood House’. Newsletter (Sydney) 30 Mar. 16/1: A youthful member of the ‘Upper Ten’ [...] stepped into a dentist’s-shop in George-street not long ago [...] As there was nothing the matter with her ivories, the ‘gum digger’ desired to know the reason.at gum-digger (n.) under gum, n.1
Newsletter (Sydney) 27 July 11/2: I wonder if any self-esteeming medical man would touch it with a poker.at wouldn’t touch it with a (red-hot) poker under touch, v.1
Newsletter (Sydney) 19 July 9/1: The returned empties from South Africa are still knocking about the city and suburbs, telling their battles (imaginary and otherwise) o’er and o’er again in the major key of skite.at returned empty, n.
Newsletter (Sydney) 29 Aug. 18/1: Copper King (roaring): ‘Yous is a pretty shine bloke to try and book a sprat (with bitter irony). I s’pose next you’ll want to book something with Tattersall.’.at shine, adj.1
Newsletter (Sydney) 11 Mar. 22/3: Writer remembers when north and west of Rockhampton (Q.), all drinks were 1s, unless you could ring in on the publican a ‘Barcoo shout,’ three drinks for 2s 6d, at which some publicans growled.at Barcoo shout (n.) under Barcoo, n.
Newsletter (Sydney) 27 May 16/4: We [...] exposed a few crooked undertakers for squeezing two or three infirmary infants into cherry cases.at cherry-case (n.) under cherry, n.1
Newsletter (Sydney) 13 Feb. 9/3: [T]he toploftical stethescopist, who is clean out of his depth in trying to damage and discredit [...] the real truth of things.at top-loftical, adj.
Newsletter (Sydney) 1 Jan. 5/2: Once upon a time, in the days of John Company, a score of cadets, vain and ignorant of the world, were despatched from Calcutta up country.at John Company, n.
Newsletter (Sydney) 20 Dec. 2/5: With twenty-five American artists, all specially imported from the land of wooden nutmegs [...] the programme is simply Boshker, with something to spare.at bosker, adj.
Newsletter (Sydney) 14 Oct. 7/3: Even then a fast beginner is liable to meet with bad luck in the jump out.at jump-out, n.
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