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Fair dinkum

fair DING-kum · adjective

Genuine, true, no word of a lie. Also a question: "Fair dinkum?"

Person 1"I won the meat tray three weeks running."
Person 2"Fair dinkum?"

"He's a fair dinkum bushie, grew up out past Bourke."

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Dinkumon its own, same meaning

Where it's from

Dinkum meant hard work in Lincolnshire dialect. By the 1890s Australians were using it for anything honest or genuine.

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