This carries on from an earlier post
Just a note to file, added February 8, because I have not posted anything here: I am now up over 170,00 words, and maybe 800 words and phrases in 2000+ entries. I will say more when I finish.
I'm getting there. If you want to see if your favourite rates, here's the list, prepared just after I added clothes props (pre-1840) and milko (WA, early 1900s).
Suggestions are welcome, and I note that pooch, probably came from the US (but who knew?), and I think the original Brown's cows were probably Irish...
[Edit 13 January: there are now more than 600 expressions and 1500 samples of text, and I have edited the list to show earliest-known-date-right-now. New list is below.]
aborigine (1798); according to Cocker (1826);
aerial ping pong (1945); aggro
(1970); aggy (1899);
alligator (1788); ambo (1928); ankle-biter
(1900); another pair of sleeves (1892);
ant bed (1893); ants (1770); Anzac
(1915); Anzac biscuits (1916);
ANZAC Day (1915); apples (she’s) (1941);
Arthur or Martha (1943); Arvo (1926); Aussie
(1915); Aussie Rules (1907);
Aussie salute (1921); Australasia
(1793); Australia (1793);
Australian Rules (1885); babbler
(1910); back-blocks (1862);
back of beyond (1830); back of Bourke (1871);
bagman (1905); Bagman’s Gazette (1900);
bail up (1844.); Bananaland
(1881); bandicoot (1799);
banker, running a (1866); barbie
(1973); bark hut (1815);
barney (1855); barracker
(1881); barrack (1883);
bastard (1945); bathers
(1911); bathing (1836);
bathing dress (1830); Bathurst burr
(1850); beak (1838);
beano (1908); bean (without a) (1900);
beauty bottler (1957); bee’s knees
(1874); Belyando spew (c. 1864);
berley (1871); bicycle
(1851); big note (1938);
big smoke (1854); big wigs
(1825); bike (1898);
bikkies (1890); bikkies (big)
(1977); bilby (1886);
billabong (1838); billy
(1848); billycart (1898);
bindi-eye (1907); bingey
(1882); bint (1945);
bitser (1926); blackbirding
(1872); blackfellows (1840);
blackleg (1865); Black Maria
(1868); black stump (1865);
black tracker (1882); Blind Freddy
(1907); bloke (1848);
bloody (1853); blow (1929); blowfly
(1829); blowie (1911);
Blucher boots (1821); bludger
(1897); bluegum (1803);
blue (in the sense of lose money)
(1898); Blue Mountain parrot (1823);
Blue Mountains (1793); blue, start a
(1938); bluetongue (1849);
Bluey (1845); bluey
(1880); bob (shilling) (1838);
bodgie (1950); Bogan
(1987); bogey (1865);
bog roll (1988); Bondi tram, like a (1943);
bonzer (1851); boodle
(1898); Boofhead (1924);
boomerang (1824); borak
(1893); boshter (1903);
bosker (1912); boss cockie
(1875); Boss-of-the-Board (1900);
Botany Bay (1786); boundary rider (1860);
bowyangs (1889); brass razoo
(1927); breakaway (1893);
brekky (1900); brickfielder
(1830); Brown’s cows (1841);
brum (penny) (1861); brumby
(1871); Buckley’s chance (1887);
budgerigar (1845); buggy
(1806); bullock driver (1813);
bunya bunya (1841); bunyip
(1845); bunyip aristocracy (1853);
burning off (1805);
burrawang (1831); bush (1801); bush carpenter (1902);
bushed (1847); bushfire
(1831); bush inn (c. 1850);
bushman (1832); bushranger
(1805); bush store (1847);
bush telegraph (1863); bushwoman
(1869); Cabbage Garden (1842);
cabbage tree hat (1799); cabbage tree mob (1841);
canary (1853); cark (1983); cart (c.
1854); caser (1892);
Catherine Hayes (1859); cedar
(1803); celestials (1856);
chap (1898); chats
(1917); chocolate crackles (1937);
chook (1889); Chow (1855); Christmas beetle (1893);
chuck (1838); churchyarder
(1900); chyack (1873);
Cigar (1859); Circular Quay
(1836); clean skins (1868);
clear out (1831); clobber
(1884); clothes props (1846);
coach travel (1821); cobber
(1890); cobbler (1872);
cobbler’s pegs (1864); cockatoo
(c. 1854); cockatoo fence (1842);
cock-eye bob (1884); cockies
(1878); coffee (1902);
coffee tent (1852); concertina
(1892); cooee (1826);
Coogee (1831); coolamon
(1854); coot (1915);
Cornstalk (1827); cossies
(1903); cove (1853);
cow cocky (1907); crack hardy
(1897); creek (1790);
cricket (1804); crinoline
(1839); cronk (1900);
crook (1896); cropper, come a (1859);
cry crack (1871); cultural cringe (1951);
currency (1822); cut out
(1867); damper (1825);
dead flat (1900); dead marine
(1856); deaf adder (1832);
deaner (shilling) (1892); death adder
(1845); didgeridoo (1918);
didn’t come down in the last shower
(1893); digger (1817);
digging (1849); diggings
(1848); dilly bag 1829); dingbat
(1887); dingo (1788);
dinkum (1917); dinky di
(1914); disperse (1805);
Dixie (1918); do a Melba
(1950); dob in (1953);
dog’s breakfast (1903); doing the Block (1854);
dollop (1833); Dolly’s wax
(1909); donah (1889);
done like a dinner (1838); done me dash
(1915); donkey-supper hat (c. 1897);
doover (1942); dowak
(1848); down the gurgler (1979);
down under (1907); drafting
(1836); dray (1820);
drongo (1837); drop bear 1967); drover’s dog
(1868); dud (1918);
duds (1900); duffer
(1853); duffing (1856);
dummy (1896); dunny
(1942); earbash 1944); ecology
(1905); elastic-side boots (1896);
elderly (1900); emu (1788); emu eggs
(1886); exclusionists (1826);
fair dinkum (1880); fair go
(1863); fairy bread (1915);
fat lamp (1827); fell off perch (1857);
fence (1788); first fleet
(1817); flat chat (1986);
flat out like a lizard drinking (1930); fleas
(1878); flies (1849);
floater (pie) (1923); flying fox
(1793); fly veil (1849);
football (1829); footpath
(1803); forester (1861);
fossick (1852); freebie
(1991); Fremantle doctor (1873);
full as a goog:); funnelweb (1927);
Furphy (1915); gaff (1901); galah
(1861); gander (1939);
gas lamps (1855); g’day
(1848); gee-gee (1898);
gibber (1853); gilgai
(1868); gin (1831);
Gippsland earth-worm (1889); give it a burl (1911);
glory box (1904); goanna
(1832); goat (act the) (1881);
gold mine (1788); gone bung
(1868); good oil (1914);
good-on-ya (1982); gooley
(1922); goonack (1873);
grass-tree (1831); green bough
(1896); greenhide (1836);
gremlins (1942); gully-raking
(c. 1837); gum-sucker (1849);
gunya (1798); gutser
(1917); had it (1945);
half a mo (1898); hanging up
(1853); happy as Larry (1857);
hard (1896); hard case
(1900); hard up (1827);
hatter (1858); have a bash
(1943); having a lend of (1907);
hawker (1818); hobble
(c. 1830); homestead (1817);
hoon (1983); Hooroo);
hot-cross bun maker (1903); humpy
(1838); hundreds and thousands (1899);
hunk (1883); Hyde Park Barracks (1829);
ice block (1934); idiot box
(1959); inexpressibles (1824);
invasion (c. 1798); ironbark
(1803); iron gang (1826);
jackeroo (1845); Jacky Howe
(1900); jake (1918);
jake (1925); jilgie
(1873); Jimmies (1850);
jirrand (1827); joey (1841); John Chinaman
(1839); Johnny cake (1827);
Johns (1915); jumbuck
(1841); jumper (c. 1853);
kangaroo (1770); kangaroo dog
(1806); kangaroo feathers (1900);
kangaroo feathers (1901); kangaroos in the top paddock (1987);
kangaroo tail soup (1837); kibosh
(1835); kick the bucket (1832);
koala (1804); Kokoda track
(1908); Kokoda trail (1942);
kookaburra (1829); kooliman
(see coolamon); kylie (1842);
lag, old (1831); lagging
(c. 1830); lamb down (1838);
Lamington (1901); larrikin
(1870); lawn tennis (1874);
leg in (1871); leg pulling
(1890); lime burners (1804);
lingo (1825); little ripper
(1912); lollies (1846);
lubra (1838); lumper
(1843); lurk (1904);
lyrebird (1800); mad as a cut snake (1946);
make a crust (1860); making wages
(1851); mallee (1882);
mallee bull (1862); marmalade
(1855); matches (1841);
meet the eye (1827); mia-mia
(1847); milko (1904);
missed the bus (1893); mob (of animals) (1834);
moleskin (1823); moniker
(1888); moonlight flit (1834);
mosquitoes (1828); motza
(1923); mozzies (1922);
mucker (1899); muck up
(1896); mug lair (1924);
mulga (1858); mulligrubs
(1832); mullock (1889);
myall (1829); nark (1885); neck, to get it in the (1893);
Never Never (1861); new chum
(1827); New year’s day (1789);
nines, dressed up to the (1835); Norfolk Island pine (1829);
no worries (1970); nulla nulla
(1808); numbat (1854);
Ocker (1975); off her kadoova (1883);
old hand (1827); omnibus
(1851); on his hunkers (1851);
on the nose (1942); on the wallaby (1858);
onion, to be off (1898); ophthalmia
(1819); outback (1868);
outback (1868); ); overlanders (1840);
overlanders (1841); packer
(1873); paddock (1807);
patta (1803); Pavlova
(1934); Peach Melba (1912);
peppered (1851); perish, doing a (1881);
piano 1788); Pivot City (1855);
plant (1835); platypus
(1824); plonk (1916);
poddy (1864); poison bait
(1847); poisoner (1900);
poke mullock (1912); poley
(1852); Pommy 1912); pooch
(1927); possie (1917);
possum (c. 1839); possum skin cloak (c. 1840);
post (1827); prickly pear
(1827); privy (1813);
prospecting (1849); prospector
(1849); punt (1834);
Push, the (1899); put the acid on (1898);
quid (1866); rabbit-proof fence (1886);
radium (1900); Rafferty’s rules (1906);
ratbag (1925); rat with a gold tooth (1953);
rawhide (1849); real corker
(1886); redback (1883);
redgum (1816); Reffo
(1945); remittance (1864);
ribuck (1891); riding attire
(1900); right as rain (1874);
righto (1902); ring-barking
(c. 1854); ringer (1870);
road (1788); rort (1901); rouseabout
(1907); rough spin (1868);
run (1834); ruthless and toothless (1945);
salted (1854); sandgroper
(1846); sandy blight (c. 1865);
sawney (1826); Sawney
(1827); scab (1842);
scalper (1898); sea-breeze
(1830); selector (1862);
Send it down, Hughie (1910); sent out
(1882); servo (1988);
settler (1803); shag on a rock, a (1843);
shanty (1830); sheila
(1923); sheoak (1803);
shicer (1853); shicker
(1883); shindy (1828);
shingle, lost or loose (1846); shirty
(1865); shivoo (1881);
shoot through (1944); shout
(c. 1852); shout (1858);
sickie (1952); silly coot
(1900); silver-tails (1879);
Simon Pure (1832); skedaddle
(1874); skite (1887);
sky-pilot (1900); slanguage
(1896); sling off (1891);
sling your hook (1884); slip rails
(c. 1845); slope (1852);
sly grog (1825); smoke-oh
(1893); smoodger (1907);
snaggers (1945); Snowy Mountains (1825);
Snowy River (1834); sool (1901); sort (1945); southerly buster (1854);
sparrow’s fart (1942); Speewah
(1892); spieler (1881);
spifflicated (1848); split
(c. 1833); spruik (1905);
squatter (1825); squiz
(1905); station (c. 1860);
sticky beak (1917); stir the possum (1894);
stock horse (1837); stock station
(1823); stockwhip (c. 1858);
stone the crows); stony (1899);
stony broke (1883); storekeeper
(1899); stork (as a bringer of
babies) (1884); stoush
(1887); strict Q.T. (1877);
strides (1913); stringybark
(1803); Struth (1895);
stunned mullet (1902); sulky
(1810); sundowner (1906);
swag (1851); swag, humping the (1851);
swagman (1861); swy (1945); Sydney Harbour (1822);
Sydney or the bush (1849); Sydneysider
(1852); taipan (snake) (1932);
tall poppy (1864); tart (1898); tea (1834); telephone
(1886); The Ashes (1882);
the pip (1872); the raw prawn
(1942); thingummybob (1945);
thumb buster (1873); tickets on self (1901);
tommy (1850); track
(1817); traps (c. 1831);
tray (threepence) (1912); triantelope
(c. 1845); troppo (1942);
true blue (1826); tucker
(1852); tucker bag (1871);
tucker box (1867); turps, on the
(1929); two-bob watch (1922);
two up (1855); typhoid fever
(1883); union (1896);
up the country (1788); up the duff
(1975); up the pole (1915);
urger (1921); Vandemonian
(1842); verandah (1802);
waddy (1801); Waler
(1859); walkabout (1859);
wallaby (1827); wallaby stew
(1859); wallaroo (1845);
waratah (1797); washing (for gold) (1849);
wash house (1901); water
(1788); water bag (1858);
wattle (1789); welsher
(1861); whaler (1900);
wharfie (1911); What do you think this is? Bush week? (1945);
whiskers (1829); white ants
(1804); wide awake hat (1846);
widgie (1950); wigwam for a goose’s bridle (1916);
wilga (1879); willy-willy
(1875); wire (1899);
within a bull’s roar (1934); within cooee
(1858); wombat (1799);
Woolloomooloo (1829); woomera
(1841); Woop Woop (1910);
wowser (1903); wurlie
(1839); yabby (1861);
yacker (1875); yarraman
(1846); yobbo (1975);
your blood is worth bottling (1903); zack (sixpence) (1912);
zeppelin (1900); zonked
(1943).
Now, if you happen to know what Miles Franklin's "donkey-supper hat" means, or what the bleep a thumb buster is, please let me know. I suspect it's the old English cartwheel penny of Kings George III and IV: it is definitely a small-denomination coin...or you know some that I have missed, please shout out.
I'm still working on it...
