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dinkum
adjective- serious AUSTRALIA
- I reckon there’s going to be a dinkum blue here before this here Cen-ten-ary’s finished. — Dymphna Cusack, Picnic Races, 1962
- I’ll have to end this strike to get a chance to have a real dinkum bit of sex. — Frank Hardy, The Outcasts of Foolgarah, 1971
- Hey, Sammy, this bastard’s getting dinkum! — Sam Weller, Old Bastards I Have Met, 1979
- Billy said he’d wait to see if it was a “dinkum” war, but I said I wanted nothing to do with it. — Ward McNally, Supper at Happy Harry’s, 1982
- real, genuine AUSTRALIA, 1905
Originally meaning “work”, or “an allotted amount of work”, “dinkum” comes from the Lincolnshire and Derbyshire dialects of Britain. The phrase FAIR DINKUMdim kum (real gold), said to have been introduced by Chinese miners during the gold rush (1860s), cannot be true since it fails to explain how a Chinese mining term could have made its way to the British midlands. - He took it to the station master who after a careful examination advised him not to ring the super until further enquiries were made as he doubted whether it was dinkum. — Patsy Adam-Smith, Folklore of the Australian Railwaymen,
- “There’s a kind of a scare on.” “Dinkum one?” — Michael Peters, Pommie Bastard, p. 101, 1969
- I reckon that’s more important than winnin’ sometimes–bein’ a dinkum trier. — Ward McNally, Supper at Happy Harry’s, p. 35, 1982
- Many people think Mel Gibson is Australian, because of his dinkum accent. — The Guardian, 10 July 2000
- honest; upstanding AUSTRALIA
- Dinkum bloke, old Joe, even if he had a bit of a kink. — Dymphna Cusack, Picnic Races, p. 204, 1962
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