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GLOSSARY OF COLLOQUIALISMS AND
SLANG TERMS.
Оглавление| AUSTRALIAN. | AMERICAN EQUIVALENTS. | ENGLISH INTERPRETATION. | |
| Billy | A tin pail | A camp-kettle. | |
| Blokes | Guys | Chaps—fellows. | |
| Bosker | Dandy or "dandy fine" | Something meeting with unqualified approval. | |
| Galoot | A rube | A yokel—a heavy country fellow. | |
| Larrikin | A hoodlum. | ||
| Moke | A common knockabout horse. | ||
| Narked | Sore | Vexed—to have lost the temper. | |
| Gin | Squaw | An aboriginal woman. | |
| Quod | Jail. | ||
| Sollicker | Somewhat equivalent to "corker" | Something excessive. | |
| Toff | A "sport" or "swell guy" | A well-dressed individual—sometimes of the upper ten. | |
| Two "bob" | Fifty cents | Two shillings. | |
| To graft | To "dig in" | To work hard and steadily. | |
| To scoot | To vamoose or skidoo | To leave hastily and unceremoniously. | |
| To smoodge | To be a "sucker" | To curry favour at the expense of independence. | |
| "Gives me the pip" | "Makes me tired" | Bores. | |
| "On a string" | } | Trifling with him. | |
| "Pulling his leg" | } | ||
| Kookaburra | A giant kingfisher with grey plumage and a merry, mocking, inconceivably human laugh—a killer of snakes, and a great favourite with Australians. |
