ridgy-didge

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1. AustraliacolloquialGenuine, authentic, true; honest, upright.

   Are you ridgy-didge? - Do you really mean that? Are you telling the truth?

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   ‘Colin Reeves,’ I said. ‘He′s ridgy-didge, is he?’ ‘Yeah, young Reeves is solid,’ Bob said. ‘Straight up and down. Although you′d never know it from the way he looks these days . . .’

   2003, Gabrielle Lord, Lethal Factor, published 2010, unnumbered page

   ‘Bullshit.′ ‘No, it′s ridgy-didge. I kid you not.’

   2011, Bill King, King of the Outback, page 162

   In the normal scheme of things a senior editor would have agreed on the sum with the seller having already defrayed the costs around the group, asking for, say, $3000 from each of the Sundays after assuring them the photos were ‘ridgy-didge’.

   2011, Bruce Guthrie, Man Bites Murdoch: Four Decades in Print, Six Days in Court, page 280

   Synonyms: dinkum, dinky-die, fair dinkum, for real

2. AustraliacolloquialGood, fine.

   2001, Bryce Courtenay, Four Fires, Volume 1, 2010, Large print edition, page 278, Sit them in the dam, wait for the fire to pass over, everything will be ridgy-didge.

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   ‘[…]I don′t know if I would have managed a commission. I don′t know if I was bright enough for that. But I was a pretty ridgy-didge soldier.’

   2004, John Little, Down to the Sea, published 2012, unnumbered page