The Term Larrikin.
"We (Napier Telegraph) thought by this time that how the word larrikin was coined was well known, but it appears not. About the year 1870 Inspector Dalton, of the Victorian, police, then a senior constable — so the coiner of the word, it will be seen, has earned promotion — charged two young men at the Melbourne City Court with misconducting themselves in the streets, and in answer to the bench he explained that they had been — here when he meant to give the word larking, in that beautiful English only to be found from the mouths of natives of " Corks own town and God's own people," he could not get it from his lips, but instead stammered out " larrikin." A rollicking Irish reporier, who now reste in the Queensland bush, took up the word, made it popular, and immortalised Dalton,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 153, 27 May 1884, Page 2
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142The Term Larrikin. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 153, 27 May 1884, Page 2
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