super

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

n.


short for superintendent,sc. of a station.

1870. A. L. Gordon, `Bush Ballads,' p. 23:

«What's up with our super to-night? The man's mad.»

1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Colonial Reformer,' c. ix. p. 83:

«That super's a growlin' ignorant beggar as runs a feller fromdaylight to dark for nothing at all.»

1890. `The Argus,' June 10, p. 4, col. 1:

«He . . . bragged of how he had bested the super who triedto `wing him' in the scrub.»

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