jackaroo

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One of the jackaroos, who reckoned that Bogan had swindled him, was a gentleman, and he was the first to throw a quid in the Giraffe's hat when it went round for Bogan, but the other jackaroo was a cur: he said he wanted the money that Bogan had robbed him of.

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  1. A new chum; a new arrival from England in the bush. [Slang, Australia.] The young Jackaroo woke early next morning and went to look around him. A. C. Grant, Bush Life in Queensland, I, 53.
  2. To learn one's business by bush-farming: said of an inexperienced greenhorn in Australia who assumes the position and duties of a jackaroo before taking up a station of his own. See jackaroo, n. [Slang. Australia.]

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  • More words from local Aboriginals had led Leonard to the isolated Stony Hill station where the boy had found work as a jackaroo Of course I told them--after you called in two days ago. —  AHMM,June2006
  • "Yakka", from the Yagara language of Brisbane, is one of the few commonly used Aboriginal words, along with "jackaroo", probably a Brisbane word for a pied crow strike, one of the country's noisiest birds. —  The Advertiser
  • One of the jackaroos, who reckoned that Bogan had swindled him, was a gentleman, and he was the first to throw a quid in the Giraffe's hat when it went round for Bogan, but the other jackaroo was a cur: he said he wanted the money that Bogan had robbed him of. —  Children of the Bush
  • You know Tom was always the best hand we had at persuading witnesses in Union cases to go home to see their mothers How did you scare that jackaroo, Tom?" —  Children of the Bush
  • One evening the jackaroo was down by the homestead-gate when Mary came cantering home on her tall chestnut. —  Children of the Bush
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