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Word: dinkum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usage:

...trace of Strine from magpie to mopoke until Bryan Brown (who plays Luke, the shearer Meggie marries when she can't get her priest) looms up on the horizon, picking the damper crumbs from his Great Whites with a stringybark sapling. But he's the only dinkum specimen in it. The kids even call their mother Mom, which nobody outside America does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Gum-Nut Tragedy All the Way | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

...Dinkum, adj.: genuine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: A Guide to Strine | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

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