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shrewdie noun- a cunning or shrewd person AUSTRALIA, 1904
- “Shrewdie Sim” they called him. — Dymphna Cusack, Picnic Races, p. 219, 1962
- There was a telephone at the front of the rank and sometimes a shrewdie on the rear of the queue would ring up and send the front cab off on a wild goose chase. — Frank Hardy, The Yarns of Billy Borker, p. 97, 1965
- [I]ts ramps and its rackets would make a present-day “shrewdie” look like a Sunday School teacher. — James Holledge, The Great Australian Gamble, p. 28, 1966
- a clever action NEW ZEALAND
- — David McGill, David McGill’s Complete Kiwi Slang Dictionary, p. 114, 1998
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