1 January 2015

larrikin

[lar-i-kin]

noun
1. a street rowdy; hoodlum.
adjective
2. disorderly; rowdy.

noun (Australia & NZ, slang)
1. a mischievous person
(as modifier): a larrikin bloke
2. a hooligan

Origin
1865-1870; from English dialect: a mischievous youth

Related forms
larrikinism, noun

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Anagram

liar rink

Today’s aphorism

I prefer to be crazy and happy rather than normal and bitter.

– Paulo Coelho

On this day

1 January – the official birthday for all thoroughbred horses in the Northern Hemisphere. (see 1 August for Southern Hemisphere).

1 January 1901 – Federation of Australia. The six self-governing colonies in Australia formed a single nation known as the Commonwealth of Australia.

1 January 1915 – Battle of Broken Hill. Two Turkish men shot dead four people and wounded seven others in the remote Australian town of Broken Hill, New South Wales. They claimed it was in relation to ongoing hostilities between the Ottoman Empire and the British Empire.

1 January 1942 – the United Nations is established by representatives of 26 nations in order to enforce peace-keeping campaigns throughout the world. There are now 193 member states and 2 non-member states (the Holy See and Palestine).

1 January 1959 – Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista flees Cuba following a revolution led by Fidel Castro. Batista allegedly fled with around $700 million of art and cash, the result of graft and corruption.

1 January 1985 – the UK’s first mobile phone call is made by British comedian, Ernie Wise (from ‘Morecombe and Wise’), to Vodafone.