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• Girldie Larks — early Strine juvile dinquent tea nature, whose scandalous career has until now been hushed up and whose evil character whitewashed by her sentimental, over indulgent parents. Girldie Larks is now known to have been a psychopathic thief and… …   Dictionary of Australian slang

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• literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …   Universalium