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1. Abdul, n. View full entry 1870
...Originally: a male Turk; spec. (chiefly Austral. and N.Z.) a Turkish soldier in the First World War (191418); (also) Turkish soldiers collectively. Later...
2. adjigo, n. View full entry 1863
...A yam, Dioscorea hastifolia, with edible tubers, native to parts of south-west Australia....
3. ake, n. View full entry 1835
...= akeake...
4. akeake, n. View full entry 1841
...Any of several shrubs or small trees sometimes used for their hard timber, esp. the hop-bush, Dodonaea viscosa (family Sapindaceae), and any of several olearias (family...
5. Albert, n.2 View full entry 1840
...(usually in pl.) a type of boot popularized by Prince Albert, orig. and esp. one having a fabric upper and patent leather toecap....
6. alcoholizer, n. View full entry 1880
...= alcoholist...
7. aroha, n. View full entry 1846
...Chiefly in Maori contexts: love, affection; warmth of feeling; an instance of this. Cf. aloha...
8. bach, n.1 View full entry 1855
...U.S.slang. A bachelor; old bach, a confirmed bachelor. Also phr. to keep bach for earlier to keep bachelor's hall (cf. hall11)...
9. bach, v. View full entry 1870
...intr. Usu. of a man: to live as a bachelor; to live alone and do one's own cooking and housekeeping. Also with it....
10. back blocks | backblocks, n. View full entry 1872
...Land in the remote and sparsely inhabited interior. Also, land distant or cut off from a river-front. Also (esp. in sing.) attrib. or ; back-blocker...
11. back-fire, n. View full entry 1839
...A fire purposely lighted ahead of an advancing prairie-fire or bushfire in order to deprive it of fuel and so extinguish it. N. Amer. and Austral....
12. baggy, adj. and n. View full entry 1808
...Puffed or bulging out, hanging in loose folds....
13. Baˈnanaland, n. View full entry 1898
...A colloquial Australian name for Queensland....
14. bangalay, n. View full entry 1884
...Bastard mahogany....
15. ˈbarney, n. View full entry 1859
...In various dial. and slang uses....
16. barney, v. View full entry 1880
...intr. To argue, dispute. dial., Austral. and N.Z....
17. barrack, n.2 View full entry c1890
...An act, or the action, of barracking....
18. barramundi, n. View full entry 1873
...Any of various chiefly freshwater fishes; (now) spec. the Asian seabass, Lates calcarifer....
19. bash, n. View full entry 1805
...A heavy blow that beats or smashes in a surface (orig. Sc.). Now in gen. use, a heavy blow....
20. bastardization, n. View full entry 1818
...The declaring or rendering bastard....
