straight dinkum
Adjective
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Adjective
straight dinkum (not comparable)
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Genuine, honest, fair and square.
- 1977, Katherine Mansfield, The Letters and Journals of Katherine Mansfield: A Selection, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=bWQIAQAAIAAJ&q=%22straight+dinkum%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22straight+dinkum%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=1hPTdxTP1J&sig=oEy8KL00VAjmCuLb_dBPz_dnJNc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=VfRnUMgg6JCIB9q7AQ&redir_esc=y page 96],
- My precious, please don′t ever send me a penny of extra money. That is very straight dinkum.
- 1977, Katherine Mansfield, The Letters and Journals of Katherine Mansfield: A Selection, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=bWQIAQAAIAAJ&q=%22straight+dinkum%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22straight+dinkum%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=1hPTdxTP1J&sig=oEy8KL00VAjmCuLb_dBPz_dnJNc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=VfRnUMgg6JCIB9q7AQ&redir_esc=y page 96],
- (genuine, honest) fair dinkum, square dinkum
straight dinkum (not comparable)
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Truly, honestly.
- 1922, Katherine Mansfield, At The Bay ↗,
- “Say, cross my heart straight dinkum.”
- 1983, John Middleton Murry, The Letters of John Middleton Murry to Katherine Mansfield, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=HfImAAAAMAAJ&q=%22straight+dinkum%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22straight+dinkum%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=tPg2Q8vLRo&sig=1HOhSwGLj0e9fKtenJub00bOepQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=VfRnUMgg6JCIB9q7AQ&redir_esc=y page 178],
- This morning, I promise cross my heart straight Dinkum (is that right?) will be the last, the very last, of our awful moments.
- 1990, Norman Lindsay, Keith Wingrove (editor), Norman Lindsay on Art, Life, and Literature, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2MBHAAAAYAAJ&q=%22straight+dinkum%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22straight+dinkum%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=fLntOMvO_f&sig=tZ-eTWVaTuR9xJbCfzbsKXK-FJ8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=VfRnUMgg6JCIB9q7AQ&redir_esc=y page 41],
- […] she said scornfully, “One of the girls gave it to you. Tell me at once who it was.”
- “Cripes, no, straight dinkum. I just picked it up.”
- 1922, Katherine Mansfield, At The Bay ↗,
- (truly, honestly) fair dinkum, square dinkum
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