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| clagged the bag |
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worn out; dead. |
| clanger |
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faux pas; mistake (eg: I dropped a clanger). |
| Clayton's |
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a substitute for the real thing. |
| cleanskin |
|
unbranded cattle or horse; unlabelled bottle
of wine. |
| climb the wall |
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to go mad. |
| clinah/cliner |
|
girlfriend; woman. |
| clobber |
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clothes; to strike someone. |
| clucky |
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desirous of having children (eg: She's getting
clucky). |
| clued-up |
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well informed. |
| cluey |
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bright; intelligent; well informed. |
| clumsy as a duck in a
ploughed paddock |
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very clumsy; crude or inelegant. |
| cobber |
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mate; friend. |
| cobbler |
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last sheep to be shorn. |
| cockatoo |
|
a person posted to keep lookout during illegal
activities (eg: a two up game). |
| cockatoo weather |
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fine by day, rain at night. |
| cockie/cocky |
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small farmer; cockatoo; cockroach. |
| cocky's joy |
|
golden syrup (An Australian spread similar to
maple syrup). |
| coffin nail |
|
a cigarette. |
| cold and dark as a
bushman's grave |
|
very cold and gloomy. |
| cold enough to freeze
the balls of a brass monkey |
|
extremely cold. |
| coldie |
|
a can of chilled beer. |
| colonial oath! |
|
an emphatic agreement |
| come a cropper |
|
to fall heavily; to have a setback. |
| comic guts |
|
stomach or guts (rhyming slang). |
| compo |
|
workers' compensation |
| conchie |
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conscientious objector. |
| cooee!/cooey! |
|
greeting or call. |
| cook the books |
|
to illegally falsify accounts or records. |
| coot |
|
fellow, usually qualified by 'silly'. |
| cop it sweet |
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to be lucky. |
| coppertail |
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an ordinary person. |
| cornstalk |
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a person from New South Wales. |
| cossie |
|
swimming costume. |
| cot case |
|
very ill; highly intoxicated or bed ridden
person. |
| cotton on to |
|
to understand; to attach oneself to another
(possibly unwilling) person. |
| cough drop |
|
idiotic person. |
| could eat a galah and
bark sandwich |
|
very hungry. |
| could eat a goanna
between two slabs of bark |
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very hungry. |
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