Farmers Slang & Its Analogues. 18901909, rev. 2022.
Good sort
or good old sort, subs. phr. (popular).A man of social and other parts.
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1892. HUME NISBET, The Bushrangers Sweetheart, p. 149. Had we not better make a clean breast of it, and trust to his generosity; he seems a GOOD SORT?