10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BANANALANDER»
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ...
Anonymous. Banaghan. He beats Banaghan, phr. (old).—An Irish saying of one
who tells travellers' tales. [Banaghan (Grose) was a minstrel famous for dealing in
the marvellous.] Ban ag h er, verb. (old).—To bang. Bananaland, Bananalander ...
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Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
1976–. Bananaland noun Austral, jocular Queensland. 1893–. [From the
abundance of bananas grown in the state.] Hence Bananalander, noun. 1887–. K
. DENTON I c'n tell a bananalander any time. I c'n pickem. You come from
Queensland ...
John Ayto, John Simpson, 2010
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
Perhaps ex the popular song, 'I had a banana with Lady Diana', the phrase to
have a banana with meant, from ca 1905, to coït with (a woman). cf. CARROT.
Bananaland; Bananalander . Queensland; a native of. Australian coll (–1887);
slightly ...
4
Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews
Twain listened to a story of a Queenslander who, attending the second last
farewell lecture in Sydney, was disappointed at Twain having traveled nine hours
in a train on a scorching day and being too tired to lecture well. The
Bananalander ...
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The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and ...
Named after the banana industry there AUSTRALIA, 1880 Bananalander
nounaperson from Queensland AUSTRALIA, 1887 banana oilnoun nonsense;
persuasive talkUS, 1924 banana peels noun surplus military tyresthat are worn
smooth ...
Terry Victor, Tom Dalzell, 2007
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Bananaland; Bananalander. Queensland; a Queenslander: Aus. coll.:—1887; ob.
by 1940. bananas. In go bananas, to become, almost or even wholly, madly
excited about something: adopted ex US, partially by 1974, widely by 1976.
DCCU ...
7
Oxford Dictionary of English
derivatives Bananalander noun. banana plug 7noun Electronics, informal a
single-pole connector with a curved strip of metal forming a spring along its tip.
bananaquit /bəˈnɑːnəkwɪt/ 7noun a small songbird with a curved bill, typically
with ...
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Slang and Its Analogues, Past and Present: A-FI
Bamuuuuo, BANANALANDER, subs. (Australian).—Queensland, and a native 0
Queensland respectively. Apparently from a large portion of that section of the
fifth continent lying within the tropics, thus allowing of the cultivation of the
banana ...
John Stephen Farmer, 1986
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The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional ...
244, 1977 Bananalander noun a person from Queensland Australia, 1887
banana oil noun nonsense; persuasive talk us, 1924 • — Jerry Robertson, Oil
Slanguage, p. 24, 1954 • — Helen Dahlskog (Editor), A Dictionary of
Contemporary and ...
Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, 2006
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Slang and its analogues past and present: A dictionary, ...
Bananalano, Bananalander, subs. (Australian). — Queensland ; a native of
Queensland. [A large portion of Queensland lies within the tropics to which the
hanana (Musa sapienium) is indigenous.] 18S6. Chamb. Journal, 20 Feh., 124.
Booted ...
John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley, 1903
