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Exclam. An exclamation of surprise or anger. A mild and antiquated curse.
Blood and sand is slang for menstruation.
Soap. Where's the faith and hope, I wanna wash me 'ands
Noun. See 'berk'.
An idiot. Local adaptation of the UK "berk" because of "Wills and Burke", two early Australian explorers ... who unfortunately got lost... and died.
Rain. Any more pleasure and we'll be swimming.
Burke and Hare is London Cockney rhyming slang for a chair.
Intimate, familiar, closely united as a hand and its glove.
Back of Bourke is Australian slang for anywhere far away.
Hare and Hound is London Cockney rhyming slang for a round of drinks (round).
Sand and canvas is nautical slang for clean thoroughly.
Burk is British slang for a fool.
Amos and Andy is British rhyming slang for brandy. Amos and Andy is British rhyming slang for shandy.
Hand and fist is London Cockney rhyming slang for very drunk, intoxicated (pissed).
An uncertain outlying area beyond the outback town of Bourke in the state of New South Wales. See also Whoop Whoop
Black box is British slang for a woman wearing a burka.
Snouts (Cigarettes). ere mate, got any ins and outs? (See Salmon and Trout)
Black pillar box is British slang for a Muslim woman wearing a burka.
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n.
An ornamental case of hold the corporal when not in use.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Burke
conj.
It is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive.
n.
A black bird of tropical America, the West Indies and Florida (Crotophaga ani), allied to the cuckoos, and remarkable for communistic nesting.
v. t.
An aid-de-camp, so called by abbreviation; as, a general's aid.
n.
Tracts of land consisting of sand, like the deserts of Arabia and Africa; also, extensive tracts of sand exposed by the ebb of the tide.
n.
A purse; also, a vesicle; a pod; a hull.
n.
An exchange, for merchants and bankers, in the cities of continental Europe. Same as Bourse.
adv.
Of each; an equal quantity; as, wine and honey, ana (or, contracted, aa), / ij., that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces.
v. t.
To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection.
conj.
In order to; -- used instead of the infinitival to, especially after try, come, go.
imp. & p. p.
of Burke
n.
A fund or foundation for the maintenance of needy scholars in their studies; also, the sum given to the beneficiaries.
an.
Relating to Galen or to his principles and method of treating diseases.
conj.
If; though. See An, conj.
conj.
A particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, or a sentence with a sentence.
v. t.
To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish.
a. & adv.
Applied to breeding from a male and female of the same parentage. See under Breeding.
n.
A kind of bazaar.
v. t.
To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question.
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