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"ref": "1933, Blackwood's Magazine, volume 233, page 350",
"text": "“[…]Say,” she continued, “ I wish I had time ta take ya to a bewdy parlor. Yew'd look cute by the time I had ya face fixed and ya eyebrows done and ya hair waved.”",
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"ref": "1936, The American Caravan, volume 5, page 625",
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"ref": "2008, Nage Archer, Slave Heart, page 189",
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"ref": "1987, Don Chipp, John Larkin, Chipp, page 35",
"text": "The day before the Press Club luncheon, I was in Traralgon, Victoria, when a fellow came up to me in a bar and said, ‘Chippy, that bloody slogan suits you down to the ground. It′s a bewdy.’",
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"ref": "1993, Venero Armanno, The Lonely Hunter, page 15",
"text": "‘[…]Look at this bewdy.’ Romeo held out a fat rose from the bush he was pruning.",
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"ref": "1997, Paul Mitchell, Dodging the Bull, page 94",
"text": "But she still cooks a bewdy of a roast.",
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"ref": "2000, Ian Jack, editor, Australia: The New New World: Granta, page 172",
"text": "‘'This little bewdy I cut out of a magazine and stuck down on a piece of card... Don′t tell anyone, mind. The tourists love it.’",
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"ref": "2004, Peter Smith, Australia in the Raw: An Eclectic Collection of Meandering Musings, page 97",
"text": "Course the silly bugger fell in love with this Yank bewdy called Linda Koslowski and that was the end to his long term marriage.",
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"ref": "2011, Bruce Guthrie, Man Bites Murdoch: Four Decades in Print, Six Days in Court, page 123",
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"text": "This was bewdy.",
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"text": "Lovely smile, doncha know. She wos a bewdy, pretty as a rosella.",
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"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1993, Venero Armanno, The Lonely Hunter, page 15",
"text": "‘[…]Look at this bewdy.’ Romeo held out a fat rose from the bush he was pruning.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1997, Paul Mitchell, Dodging the Bull, page 94",
"text": "But she still cooks a bewdy of a roast.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2000, Ian Jack, editor, Australia: The New New World: Granta, page 172",
"text": "‘'This little bewdy I cut out of a magazine and stuck down on a piece of card... Don′t tell anyone, mind. The tourists love it.’",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2004, Peter Smith, Australia in the Raw: An Eclectic Collection of Meandering Musings, page 97",
"text": "Course the silly bugger fell in love with this Yank bewdy called Linda Koslowski and that was the end to his long term marriage.",
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},
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"ref": "1993, Patti Walkuski, David Harris, No Bed of Roses: Memoirs of a Madam, page 124",
"text": "The young woman gave them the fingers up and walked back disdainfully, ignoring their whistles and shouts of, ‘Bewdy, you showed him.’",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Howard Young, Searching the Crocodile Coast: Sequel to Crocodile Coast Crash, page 6",
"text": "“Bewdy!” said Hugh, as he turned away to get his breakfast.",
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},
{
"ref": "2011, Bruce Guthrie, Man Bites Murdoch: Four Decades in Print, Six Days in Court, page 123",
"roman": "‘Tomorrow? Bewdy,’ said Mallon.",
"text": "‘Listen, I′ll give it some thought,’ I said. ‘I′ll come back to you tomorrow, okay?’ I was being polite.",
"type": "quotation"
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],
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