jumbuck

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\ "Where's the jolly jumbuck you've got in your tucker-bag?

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  • Sheep are about the hardiest animals on the face of this planet--barring crocodiles You may rip a sheep open whilst watching for the boss's boots or yarning to a pen-mate, and then when you have stuffed the works back into the animal, and put a stitch in the slit, and poked it somewhere with a tar-stick (it doesn't matter much where) the jumbuck will be all right and just as lively as ever, and turn up next shearing without the ghost of a scratch on its skin We reached Picton, a small collection of twinkling lights in a dark pocket, apparently at the top of a sound. —  While the Billy Boils
  • \ "Where's the jolly jumbuck you've got in your tucker-bag? —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Down came a jumbuck to drink at the water-hole, —  Saltbush Bill, J. P.
  • "Whose is the jumbuck you've got in the tucker-bag? —  Saltbush Bill, J. P.
  • When you sign up through that link above and respond to the confirmation email, I make a bit of loose change. government_death_rob: nd u aint got2 call me ya boo jst as bad as u wanna fuk i wanna fuk 2 bobacus: My cats name is Matilda. caladbolg: he sang as he shoved that jumbuck in his tucker bag .... wolfer: fuck you guys, Im going home ... cockroach: WOTAK'S HOGGING THE SHOUT BOX —  LinkSwarm.com
 

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  1. Australian pidgin, perhaps from Kamilaroi (Aboriginal language of southeast Australia) dhimba.

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  1. A native Australian name, thus explained: “The word ‘jumbuck’ for sheep appears originally as jimba, jombock, dombock, and dumbog. In each case it meant the white mist preceding a shower, to which a flock of sheep bore a strong resemblance. It seemed the only thing the aboriginal mind could compare it to.” Mr. Meston, in the Sydney Bulletin, April 18, 1896 (quoted in English English Morris, Austral English).
 

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/ˈdʒəmbək/
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