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fair dinkum
adverb- honestly; really; seriously; in all truth AUSTRALIA, 1894
First recorded in 1881 from the dialect of north Lincolnshire (English Dialect Dictionary) as an exclamation equivalent to “fair play!” in which usage it had brief life in Australia from 1890 to 1924 (Australian National Dictionary). - “You sound like a whale that’s swallowed a bellyfulla carbide, fair dinkum!” “Get knotted,” belched Steeger. — W.R. Bennett, Wingman, p. 69, 1961
- Wouldn’t it! I’m not in the mood now...fair dinkum you bastards are worse than a dose of arrowroot! — Barry Humphries, The Wonderful World of Barry McKenzie, p. 17, 1968
- Next thing in came this little old dear and, fair dinkum, she could have been a waitress at the Last Supper. — Sam Weller, Old Bastards I Have Met, p. 21, 1979
- So when I grabbed hold of his tail, fair dinkum, the bastard spat at me. — Sam Weller, Old Bastards I Have Met, p. 52, 1979
- I told yer! I can’t locate me wallet! Fair dinkum! I’m not makin’ it up! — Lance Peters, The Dirty Half-Mile, p. 119, 1979
- totally; properly; well and truly AUSTRALIA, 1918
- I’m going to get drunk. Fair dinkum drunk, too. On beer. — Norman Lindsay, Halfway to Anywhere, p. 180, 1947
- He’s fair dinkum bonkers, if you ask me. — John O’Grady, Aussie Etiket, p. 67, 1971
- A cabbage patch doll! Can you believe it? I am fairdinkum spewin badly. — Kylie Mole (Maryanne Fahey), My Diary, p. 3, 1988
- It’s a fair dinkum exact repeat performance each time. — Clive Galea, Slipper, p. 96, 1988
- I don’t believe this. I dead set, fair dinkum, don’t bloody well believe it. — Robert G. Barrett, Davo’s Little Something, p. 205, 1992
- I came to realise that life on crutches is a bummer. It’s just fair dinkum like a whole new lifestyle[.] — Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, p. 54, 1995
- fairly AUSTRALIA
- “Where did you get them from, then?” “I got them fair dinkum from old Jerry Crankle workin’ at the gasworks.” — Norman Lindsay, Halfway to Anywhere, p. 41, 1947
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