Citations:billy

English citations of billy and cookware

• "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)

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• 2020, Nicki Minaj, guest verses on "Nice to Meet Ya" by Meghan Trainor, Treat Myself:

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