GLOSSARY OF COLLOQUIALISMS AND SLANG TERMS.
Miles Franklin
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"
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Trifling with him.
"Pulling his leg"
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Kookaburra
A giant kingfisher with grey plumage and a merry, mocking, inconceivably human laugh—a killer of snakes, and a great favourite with Australians.
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