4: A few old lubras sufficiently dirty and unprepossessing. Reginald A. To tuck in is provincial English for to eat, andtuck is a school-boy word for food, especially whatis bought at a pastrycook's. [It has] become of generaluse throughout the colony; and a newcomer, in desiring anindividual to call another back, soon learns to say`Coo-ee' to him, instead of Hollo to him.
The name is also applied to Tabernaemontana orientalis,R. one is `to follow the buck,' the other `to receive thebuck. Wilson, `Australian Songs,' p. 73: But just before you hands 'im [the horse] over and getsthe money, he goes bong on you (i.
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