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adjective- my UK, 1838
Colloquial. - England? You don’t say. You got time to come and meet the wife? — The Guardian, 10 March 2001
- used in the formation of colloquial nicknames for places AUSTRALIA, 1883
Thus Alice Springs becomes “the Alice”; Mount Isa becomes “the Isa”; Cloncurry becomes “the Curry”; Wollongong becomes “the Gong”. - But when I come into the Alice nowadays I drive a car. — Coralie Rees, Spinifex Walkabout, p. 242, 1953
- From “the Curry” the route ran over a deep crossing where the cattle were forced to swim. — Mary Durack, Kings in Grass Castles, p. 253, 1959
- — Harvey E. Ward, Down Under Without Blunder, p. 47, 1967
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