Bardie

noun
an edible white wood-boring grub of australia
(austral, slang) starve the bardies!, an exclamation of surprise or protest
historical examples

bardie dropped her eyes under my beard, and bunny crept closer behind my leg.
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now, being sure of my boat, i began to think what to do with bardie.
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but the girl-child shook her hand at him, and said, ‘e bad man, bardie knows ‘a.’
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the same must have been the fate of bardie but for the accident of that boat.
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susan say to me one day, kite yell, i amember, ickle bardie made of money!
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and poor bardie get off her stool, and say what her dear papa tell.
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not like bardie, of course; but still a satisfactory feeling.
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and so poor bunny got nothing at all; nor even did poorer bardie.
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in a fortnight bardie was mistress again; and poor bunny had to trot after her.
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our charity never begins at home; as poor bardie’s did in her copy-book.
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