Citations:billy


 * "I'll send the kid down with the thing and a billy of milk." - "The Woman at the Store", from "Selected Short Stories" by Katherine Mansfield (first published in 1912)

Billy in Australian literature

 * "The swagman tramping ’cross the plain;
 * Good Lord, there’s nothing sadder,
 * Except the dog that slopes behind
 * His master like a shadder;
 * The turkey-tail to scare the flies,
 * The water-bag and billy;
 * The nose-bag getting cruel light,
 * The traveller getting silly."
 * - Henry Lawson, But What’s the Use


 * "'I’m going to knock off work and try to make some money,' said Mitchell, as he jerked the tea-leaves out of his pannikin and reached for the billy..."
 * - Henry Lawson, Mitchell’s Jobs


 * "The hatter warmed up the tea-billy again, got out some currant buns, which he had baked himself in the camp-oven..."
 * - Henry Lawson, The House that was Never Built


 * "Then he made a fire in the kitchen, and hung the kettle and a big billy of water over it."
 * - Henry Lawson, A Child in the Dark, and a Foreign Father


 * "I started early, and Mary caught up to me at Ryan’s Crossing on Sandy Creek, where we boiled the billy and had some dinner."
 * - Henry Lawson, ‘Water Them Geraniums’.I. A Lonely Track.


 * "Mitchell and I turned off the track at the rabbit-proof fence and made for the tank in the mulga. We boiled the billy and had some salt mutton and damper."
 * - Henry Lawson, The Lost Souls’ Hotel


 * "Then he went to the camp-fire to try some potatoes which were boiling in their jackets in a billy, and to see about frying some chops for dinner."
 * - Henry Lawson, The Loaded Dog


 * "Then he lifted his swag quietly from the end of the floor, shouldered it, took up his water-bag and billy, and sneaked over the road, away from the place, like a thief."
 * - Henry Lawson, An Incident at Stiffner’s


 * "And he sang as he watched and waited 'til his billy boiled..."
 * - Banjo Patterson, Waltzing Matilda (song)

Noun: "(slang) greatest of all time (GOAT)"

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 * They know I'm the billy, I be laughin'