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sollicker Austral. slang.|ˈsɒlɪkə(r)| Also soliker. [Of unknown origin.] Something very big, a ‘whopper’. Hence ˈsollicking a., ‘whopping’.
1898R. Graeme From England to Back Blocks 82 Who was it I heard that in cutting-out some cattle on one of the Methvin plains, did come down a soliker and broke his horse's knees? 1899‘S. Rudd’ On our Selection 64 He kicked Farmer what he afterwards called ‘a sollicker on the tail’. 1939Franklin & Cusack Pioneers on Parade 168 She gave me a sollicker of a dose out of a blue bottle. 1946K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) x. 155 It was a great big sollicking stitch if ever there was one. 1956P. White Tree of Man i. vii. 91 ‘You can jump down, can't you? You're quite big, you know.’ ‘Of course he can... He's a sollicker.’ |