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Are you seeing your mates this arvo because it’s been yonks? Do you shout ’ave a go, ya mug to your football team from the stands? Or tell your mate his team has got Buckley’s chance of winning the AFL Grand Final? Do you mutter ‘stone the crows’ when surprised? Or have you got your wobbly boots on? Perhaps you’ve recently developed a verandah bum.

Aussie English may be the most inventive and creative language in the world. This larrikin lexicography by Kel Richards tells the stories behind almost a thousand Aussie words and phrases.

So if you’ve ever wondered how ‘bloody’ became an all-purpose swear word, why ‘bludger’ means a lazy person, or even what ‘dangle the dunlops’, ‘possum knockers’ or ‘molly-dooker’ might mean, then you need to read this bonzer book.

Kel Richards' Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

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      Publisher NewSouth Publishing
      Published 1 February 2013
      ISBN-13 9781742233734
      978-1742233734
      ISBN-10 1742233732

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Are you seeing your mates this arvo because it’s been yonks? Do you shout ’ave a go, ya mug to your football team from the stands? Or tell your mate his team has got Buckley’s chance of winning the AFL Grand Final? Do you mutter ‘stone the crows’ when surprised? Or have you got your wobbly boots on? Perhaps you’ve recently developed a verandah bum.

      Aussie English may be the most inventive and creative language in the world. This larrikin lexicography by Kel Richards tells the stories behind almost a thousand Aussie words and phrases.

      So if you’ve ever wondered how ‘bloody’ became an all-purpose swear word, why ‘bludger’ means a lazy person, or even what ‘dangle the dunlops’, ‘possum knockers’ or ‘molly-dooker’ might mean, then you need to read this bonzer book.

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