10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHYPOO»
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shypoo in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
shypoo and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Lingo: Listening to Australian English
SHY- POO meant cheap, or of dubious, quality, a word of unknown origin applied
in terms like SHYPOO SHARES (penny or virtually worthless stocks) and
SHYPOO SHOWS (fraudulent mines). It was also heard outside the gold trade in
such ...
2
A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Occ. short for shypoo shanty, a 'sly-grog' shop, and:shypoo joint. An inferior
public-house: Aus. low: since ca. 1925. Baker. shypoo shop. 'A place where you
bought beer and wine, but nothing stronger' (Tom Ronan, Only a Short Walk,
1961): ...
3
Australian words and their origins
1962 Marshall u Drysdale Journey among Men 160 Men in cotton shirts and
corduroys met there to buy provisions and to "blue' their cheques on fiery spirits
or shypoo, as Colonial beer was called. 2. An (unlicensed) establishment which
sells ...
4
The Bulletin Reciter: A Collection of Verses for Recitation ...
To the stranger at the U., With the crispy notes and new He circulated freely '
mong the diggers on the U. Paddy Grady's " Hessian Palace " was a scene of
wild delight, And we drank the shypoo deeply, till the lateness of the night
Suggested a ...
Alfred George Stephens, 1901
That man in the tent was old Shypoo Anderson, no less ! Used to hang round
Cossack, in the eighties, — my bachelor days. Hardest case on the beach;
always beast-o, he was, uncommonly beast-o, even for Cossack. What ? Just
now?
Henry Milner Rideout, 1910
6
Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
... taste; tincture; wet Poor-quality drink firewater; gnat's piss; gut-rot; hooch; King
Kong; lunatic soup; pink-eye; popskull; rot-gut; scrap iron; screech; shypoo;
snake-juice; Sneaky Pete Illicitly distilled or irregularly concocted drink moon;
pruno; ...
John Ayto, John Simpson, 2010
7
The Colliery Engineer ...
Having temporarily shut down his mine, he is at the moment of writing on a visit to
the eastern states of the Commonwealth. "Shypoo" Mines. — The whole of the
northern fields is honeycombed with what are contemptuously called "shypoo" ...
8
The Slang and Jargon of Drugs and Drink
polish shop, shypoo, shypoo joint, shypook, shypoo shop, skee joint, sluice
house, sluicery, sly groggery, sly grog joint, sly grogshop, smoke joint, sneakeasy
, sneaker, sneakery, sneakie, sotto voce parlor, speak, speakeasy, speaker, ...
9
Australian Hotelier: Official National Magazine of the ...
'Knockout'. contest. for. Jeff. Fenech's. big. blue. with. Nelson. From. swipes. and.
shypoo. to. brewing. for. the. world. FEBRUARY. 1992. i . - . '“L"'.'>b'-'!'e-“?'l;Fa:;g¢
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10
Three Sheets To The Wind: One Man's Quest For The Meaning Of ...
It was difficult to brew in the heat, without proper equipment or materials, and for
most of the nineteenth century beer was known by a variety of colourful
nicknames such as squirt, sheep wash, stringy-bark, shypoo and shearer's joy-
Originally ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHYPOO»
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shypoo is used in the context of the following news items.
Dogs have masters, cats have slaves
I did not want to fill it out as I told myself that I would never have another cat, after Shypoo had died. But I did fill it out and then the girl said, “You may have ... «Courier-Gazette & Camden Herald, May 15»
No more putting on jam as Orstralia gets respect in Oxford …
Lunatic soup or shypoo is a poor-quality alcoholic beverage; rosiner is a large one and a sly-groggery is like a New York prohibition bar, minus the chic. «Sydney Morning Herald, Mar 15»
