10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PANNIKIN BOSS»
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The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional ...
1985 pannikin boss noun a person with a modest amount of authority; a minor
boss; a foreman AUSTRALIA. 7898 • [The truck was] manned by other coloureds
who by their woolly heads were Melanesian and Polynesian, the usual type of ...
Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, 2006
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
W. compares with BOOTS and BUTTONS. pannier, fill a woman's . To render her
pregnant: C.17–18: low coll. Cotgrave. pannikin-boss or -overseer . An overseer
in a small, 'unofficial' way on a station: Australian coll (–1896); ob. pannikin into ...
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The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and ...
An abbreviation of PANNIKIN BOSS AUSTRALIA, 1957 panoramasnoun
pyjamas. Rhyming slang UK, 1992 pan out verb(of anevent) to turnout; toresult.
Afigurative application ofpanning forgold US, 1871 pansy nounamale
homosexual; ...
Terry Victor, Tom Dalzell, 2007
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
... ganger; Scottish grieve; S. African induna; in the Indian subcontinent maistry;
informal chief, head honcho, governor, super; Brit. informal gaffer, guv'nor; N.
Amer. informal ramrod, straw boss; Austral. informal pannikin boss; Mining
overman.
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Of Pavlova, Poetry and Paradigms: Essays in Honour of Harry ...
1979); pannikin boss 'one with only a small degree of authority' (NZ 1926, Aust.
1951); snore- off 'a sleep, often after drinking' (NZ 1950, Aust. 1952); sook 'a sissy
'(NZ 1933, Aust. 1941), strawberry box 'receptacle for vomit' (NZ 22 Of Pavlova, ...
Christine Franzen, Laurie Bauer, 1993
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Comrade Roberts: Recollections of a Trotskyite
Even Kelso, the "pannikin boss" (under foreman) a bully of massive build, was
circumspect about giving orders to Big Andy. Every night, after we'd washed the
coal dust out of our throats at the six o'clock swill at the Woolloomooloo pub,
Andy ...
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Rhetortic at the red dawn
And it seems that it all happened something like the following: A rationalist, a
pannikin boss, and a religious mortal sat on a form in the sun. The rationalist was
Oliver, for he was a socialist as well. The boss was Mr. Patrick Brannigan, for he ...
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The restless waterfront
With the waterside workers taking pannikin boss jobs which were really assistant
foremen's work, there was no security for the permanent foremen. It was about
this time, sometime in 1938, that I became president of the Foremen Stevedores'
...
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The aborigines of Australia: their history, their habits, ...
A foreman or second-in-charge on a station is called "pannikin boss." A
departmental head from another State, while on a tour of inspection of the
Northern Territory was introduced by the Missionary, speaking the native lingo, to
a party of Arn- ...
John William Bleakley, 1961
Mr. S LEE MAN : In one instance at Fre- mantle a crowd of men were told by the
pannikin boss that they could get work on the job but would have to go to the
bureau to be picked up. As soon as the men left, six other men were put on. The
next ...
Western Australia. Parliament, Australia. Parliament. Senate, Australia. Parliament. House of Representatives, 1926
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