Austral English Part 271
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. slang name for a long drink of beer in New South Wales, after Trickett, the New South Wales champion sculler.
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occurring in Australasia, and the only one found in Tasmania. Numerous extinct species are characteristic of the Mesozoic rocks. The only living species existing are confined to Australia.
, in Queensland, are a force of aboriginal police, officered by white men.
1858. T. McCombie, `History of Victoria,' c. viii. p. 100:
"A violent effort [was] made by the troopers on duty to disperse an a.s.semblage which occupied the s.p.a.ce of ground in front of the hustings."
1864. J. Rogers, `New Rush,' p. 51:
"A trooper spies him snoring in the street."
1868. J. A. B., `Meta,' canto iii. ver. 20, p. 72:
"The felon crew ... hard pressed by troopers ten."
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1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,'vol. vii. pl. 73:
"Phaeton Phoenicurus, Gmel., Red-tailed Tropic Bird; New Holland Tropic Bird, Latham, `General History, vol. x.
p. 448."
(q.v.).
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, much esteemed as a food-fish, and weighing sometimes 50 or 60 lbs. The name is probably from the noise made by the fish when taken out of the water. The name was formerly given to a different fish in Western Australia.
See also b.a.s.t.a.r.d-Trumpeter, Morwong, and Paper-fish.
1834. M. Doyle, `Letters and Journals of G. F. Moore, Swan River Settlement,' p. 191:
"Many persons are trying to salt fish, which are very numerous in the river about and below Perth, as you must have seen by one of my letters, in which I mentioned our having taken 10,000 at one draught of the seine; these are of the kind called herrings, but do not look very like them; they make a noise when out of the water, and on that account are also called trumpeters."
1870. T. H. Braim, `New Homes,' vol. ii. p. 65:
"The finest kinds are the guard-fish of the mainland and the trumpeter of the Derwent in Tasmania."
1882. Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, `Fish of New South Wales,'
p. 45:
"The first of these [Latris] is the genus of the well-known `Hobart Town trumpeter,' a fish deservedly of high reputation."
(2) An obsolete name in Tasmania for the black Crow-Shrike (q.v.), Strepera fuliginosa, Gould.
1832. J. Bischoff, `Van Diemen's Land,' p. 177:
"We also occasionally heard the trumpeter or black magpie."
(q.v.).
, quotation 1882.
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1846. G. H. Haydon, `Five Years in Australia Felix,' p. 57:
"The flying-squirrel, or tuan, is much sought after for its fine fur; of these there are two kinds, a large one of a dark colour, only found 1n the mountains; and a smaller description found in all parts of the colony, and better known by the native name, tuan."
1859. H. Kingsley, `Geoffrey Hamlyn,' p. 274:
"The Touan, the little grey flying-squirrel, only begins to fly about at night, and slides down from his bough sudden and sharp."
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1820. `Grammar and Vocabulary of Language of New Zealand'
(Church Missionary Society), p. 218:
"Tua tira, a species of lizard."
1863. `Mahoe Leaves,' p. 47:
"A small boy of a most precocious nature, who was termed `tua tara,' from a horrid sort of lizard that the natives abhor."
1890. `Catalogue of New Zealand Exhibition':
"The Tuatara is the largest existing New Zealand reptile. It is closely allied to the Lizards; but on account of certain peculiarities of structure, some of which tend to connect it with the Crocodiles, is placed by Dr. Guenther in a separate order (Rhynchocephalina)."
. Australian slang for food.
To tuck in is provincial English for to eat, and tuck is a school-boy word for food, especially what is bought at a pastrycook's. To make tucker means to earn merely enough to pay for food.
1874. Garnet Walch, `Head over Heels,' p. 73:
"For want of more nourishing tucker, I believe they'd have eaten him."
1875. Wood and Lapham, `Waiting for the Mail,' p. 33:
"We heard of big nuggets, but only made tucker."
1890. `The Argus,' June 14, p. 14, col. 1:
"When a travelling man sees a hut ahead, he knows there's water inside, and tucker and tea."