In the meantime we picked up two more gems,--mature larrikinthis time.
Nothing like the Australian larrikin when he gets going," you will be told.
The larrikin differs by a shade from those others, in that he is more sociable toward the stranger than they, more kindly disposed, more hospitable, more hearty, more friendly.
Under the veranda at the corner the Push was gathered, the successors of Chook and Jonah, young and vicious, for the larrikin never grows old.
They were all young--from eighteen to twenty-five--for thelarrikin never grows old.
Struck by her skill in dancing, he courted her in the larrikin fashion.
About five o'clock on the following Sunday afternoon, Chook, beautifully attired in the larrikin fashion, sauntered up to the door and tried the knocker.
Whereupon quoth he, "O King of the Age, listen to what I shall relate," and he fell to telling the Tale of the Third Larrikin Concerning Himself.
Quoth the King, "Then tell it to us;" when the first Larrikin began to relate the Story of a Sultan of Al-Hind and his Son Mohammed.
When the Sultan heard these words from the Larrikin he fell to wondering and laughing at what the wight had done and he said, "By Allah, verily thy deed is the deed of a vagabond who is a past-master in fraud.
And when the second Larrikin held his peace quoth the King, "Allah quicken thee for this story; by the Almighty 'tis wondrous, and it delighteth the hearer and rejoiceth the teller.
He struggled up and climbed anyhow into trousers, coat, and shoes, and set off at a shambling trot, with no clear notion of what he meant to do but keeping the larrikin in sight.
The belligerent whine was enough to renew the identity of the mangy little larrikin whose couch on the sand he had shared.
But when he came up again the unfortunate larrikin loosed shriek after bubbling shriek and floundered madly for shore, all else forgotten in his dominant terror.
The larrikin raged about like a man in a strong temper.
Anyone today who is disrespectful of authority or convention is said to show the larrikin element in the Australian character.
The larrikin turned away, and beckoned his comrades to follow him.
Only those who hate to toil The true enjoyment know; But could you love a larrikin Whose task he'd so resign?
The New York hoodlum is a larrikin with a difference.
The British rough is a larrikin also with a difference.
The fore-runners of the larrikin were never very sheep-like in all probability, for if one could trace his pedigree, it would in most cases be found that he is the descendant of the true British cad.
Just in front of her the exuberant larrikin was making himself as tall as possible.
I don't call it tame," she said, with a laugh, as the yells of the larrikin and his fellows rent the air around them.
The tail of the procession was well in sight; the heaving crowd on the Treasury steps was swaying and breaking like a huge wave upon the street; the larrikin was gone.
The people were shouting and cheering; thelarrikin was dancing up and down in his hob-nailed boots, and bumping heavily upon the arm that shielded her.
One of two great excitements of our journey was furnished by “Bushy Bill,” a recklesslarrikin of Melbourne.
My inquiries into the origin and habits of that troublesome parasite the larrikin (if I may adopt Constable Dalton's term) do not make me sanguine that compulsory primary instruction can do much for him, unless indirectly.
The Premier, in consultation with the inspector-general of the police, has made arrangements to protect life and property against the misconduct of the lawless larrikin `pushes' now terrorising Sydney.
Archibald Forbes described the larrikin as "a cross between the Street Arab and the Hoodlum, with a dash of the Rough thrown in to improve the mixture.
The juvenile larrikin element being strongly represented in court, all the boys were ordered out.
A few years ago the police by resolute dealings with the larrikin pest almost put it down in the neighbourhood, the part of it which was left being thoroughly cowed, and consequently afraid to make any disturbance.
Marks the young criminals as heroes in the eyes not only of the ostensible larrikin element .
If I am right, then larrikin is the natural diminutive form in English phraseology for a small or juvenile thief.
He's a lively little larrikin lad, and his name is Little Boy Blue.
I'm as good a man as him, though I'm a larrikinand he's a twopenny lord.
The Sleeper and the Waker Story of the Larrikin and the Cook 2.
So the Larrikinstopped and said to him, "Dost thou cry out upon me and call to me with these words, O cornute?
A couple of larrikin acquaintances were standing there, shrivelled young men in high-heeled pointed-toed shoes, belled trousers, gaudy neckties and round soft hats tipped over the left ear.
The Englishman thought that all the stories he had heard of the Australian larrikin must be exaggerated, and that any man who was at all athletic could easily hold his own among such a poor-looking lot.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "larrikin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
