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Definition of tothersider in English: tothersider(also othersider) nountʌðəˈsʌɪdə Australian A person from the eastern states of Australia. a tothersider who, in his selfish hurry to make money, would sweat and drive his employees without mercy Example sentencesExamples - Her father was not a tothersider: he was born in Pinjarra, in the state's southwest.
- Every boat from the East dumped crowds of Tothersiders ashore at Fremantle.
- He was an unscrupulous Tothersider journalist who was taking mental notes of 'em all the time with an eye to a series of sketches at 30s. a column.
- The Tothersiders are cutting each others' throats.
- It was, after all, some 6500 kilometres closer to Europe than Sydney and Melbourne, and consequently its citizens remained much closer to Mother England than did 'tothersiders'.
- No doubt there would be a proposal that the t'othersider must show, before admission, that he was possessed of certain means, and would be prepared to expend them in this colony.
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