- Have a burl
- have an attempt
Dictionary of Australian slang . 2013.
Have a burl
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have a burl — Australian Slang have an attempt … English dialects glossary
burl — I. /bɜl / (say berl) noun 1. a small knot or lump in wool, thread, or cloth. 2. Also, tree burl. a dome shaped, wart like growth on the trunk of a tree, around 60 cm across and protruding by 30 cm or more, which can be sliced to make burlwood… …
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Burl Barer — (born 1947, Walla Walla, Washington) is an American author and literary historian. He is best known for his fiction and non fiction writings about the character Simon Templar, also known as The Saint .Career The Saint Barer s best known work is… … Wikipedia
Burl Ives — Infobox actor name = Burl Ives caption = Burl Ives in 1955, photo by Carl Van Vechten birthname = Burle Icle Ivanhoe Ives birthdate = birth date|1909|6|14 location = Hunt, Illinois deathdate = death date and age|1995|4|14|1909|6|14 deathplace =… … Wikipedia
Burl — A burl (British bur or burr) is a tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner. It is commonly found in the form of a rounded outgrowth on a tree trunk or branch that is filled with small knots from dormant buds. Burls are the… … Wikipedia
burl — give it a burl Give it a try, make an attempt. Burl is one of almost 200 words that Australian English borrowed from British dialects. It is a Scots word for a spin or whirl , and in Australia we have varied the standard English give it a whirl… … Australian idioms
burl — I Australian Slang 1. attempt; try; 2. move quickly: to burl along (northern British dialect birl to spin) II Australian English Have a try, as in give it a burl … English dialects glossary
burl — n Australian a try. Usually in the phrase give it a burl , meaning to make an attempt at, to try (a task or activity). Probably a blend of the colloquial expressions have a bash and give it a whirl . Give it a burl is one of many Australian… … Contemporary slang
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