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What is Aust. Literature 20th century?

M's #1

mate
noun friend; cobber (see); familiar term of address among men, similar to US `buddy'
`This here's Raysie, me best mate'
mickey
noun vagina; hence 'mickey whisker' = pubic hair OR, colloquially, a very short distance/measurement
'We shaved a mickey whisker off the bottom of the door to get it to fit.'
missus
noun wife; the handbrake (see)
'I took me missus down the pub (see) last night.'

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