Some Everyday Folk and Dawn

Dedication

TO THE ENGLISH MEN WHO BELIEVE IN VOTES FOR WOMEN
THIS STORY IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED, BECAUSE THE WOMEN HEREIN CHARACTERISED WERE NEVER FORCED TO BE

Glossary of Colloquialisms and Slang Terms

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.