Did you by any chance mean one of these? Manila, manila, maxilla
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Australia A bundle of possessions, often tied up in a sack; a swag.
Etymologies
- Unknown. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Get well soon the people of this country needs you. matilda Johnson”
“HEY MICHELLE, IM SERIOUS, check up with a stylist .... matilda Johnson”
“Now I can expend less energy imagining what a blonde / brunette woman would look like naked, trapped in a cage. matilda 3:50 pm on July 17, 2008 | # | Reply i always have trouble with the description of sexuality as power.”
“OH hai, LadyM…once a jolly swagman, camped by a billagong, under da shade ub a kooliba tree and he sang as sat an wayted wile his billy boiled, yull come a waltzing matilda wif me…happy to refresh da eerwurm fur ya!”
Someday my prints will come… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“Eventually he left a matilda lend leased to the Ruskies to guard the objective -- but I was able to move to threaten the other objective, so he had to use his AA to protect that one .....”
“The Germans suddenly discovered they had nothing that could take out a matilda -- they even seemed to be stuka proof top armour of 2 makes it hard with bombs.”
“He was pretty angry, all right; I began to understand that if Carl Gustaf hadn't survived it would have been waltzing matilda for Flashy if Sapten had had his way.”
“Cant imagine you strippin, but hey matilda rhe hun has done some awesome dancin to "have you ever been mellow" down in tijuana with that infamous donkey of hers, so anythings possible.”
“Chris Davidson on the bagpipes was fantastic. (the rendition of waltzing matilda was great)”
“You had to do a fair bit of digging around the nationaltimes, new matilda, crikey etc to find genuinely negative press.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘matilda’.
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songbirds
Names of girls in song titles. Not in the lyrics, just in the titles.
Just the name on the list, then the full title with any identifying notes in the comments, please.
Can be the same ...marianne, evie, lady d'arbanville, peggy sue, suzanne, dianne, boni maroni, miss molly, lola, mony, sadie, rita and 206 more...
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Professional Scrabble Lexicon (TWL)
A myriad of game-changing words every Scrabble addict must have in his arsenal.
Keep in mind that these are all tried-and-true feasibly playable words selected for their handiness, i.e...paragon, pignora, ganef, suttee, origan, ohia, aioli, abasement, lehr, mho, tallow, harelike and 842 more...
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seanahan's Words
lacustrine, indubitably, masala, balustrade, arcane, gambit, bagatelle, demonstrative, epicaricacy, cacophony, archetype, picaresque and 418 more...
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Tunie: Waltzing Matilda
Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong
Under the shade of a coolibah tree
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled,
"Who'll come a-waltzing matilda with me?"ghost, troopers, thoroughbred, squatter, tucker bag, shoved, glee, jumbuck, matilda, waltzing matilda, billy, coolibah and 2 more...
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Australian Derivation ... or, you kno...
Words I heard there. Or from Australians.
didjeridoo, budgerigar, kangaroo, wombat, kookaburra, echidna, koala, dreamtime, matilda, waltzing matilda, billabong, coolibah and 44 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for matilda.
goodkitten Matilda by Roald Dahl Jun 16, 2012
chained_bear "Waltzing Matilda" by A.B. ("Banjo") Paterson (as comments below attest). (This comment's for gangerh's "songbirds" list.) Feb 9, 2008
bilby During his lifetime, mainly. I just remember a time when the women's soccer team was looking for a nickname - all the iconic animals had already been spoken for - and came up with The Matildas. And there was a bit of chit-chat about what a matilda might be and no-one really knew. Nov 27, 2007
chained_bear Bilby, do you mean scant evidence of its usage today, or scant evidence of its ever having been used outside the poem/song?
I would argue it's kind of like mome raths or brillig--sure it wasn't (and isn't) used much outside the poem, but by virtue of the poem achieving great visibility, the terms have now entered the language, so... Paterson's job here is done. :) Nov 27, 2007
uselessness Well, it's also quite possibly the greatest book Roald Dahl ever wrote. Nov 26, 2007
bilby I declare chained_bear the winner.
There's some speculation that matilda is meaningless as there is scant evidence of its usage beyond this song. Perhaps a pet name for someone Paterson loved. Nov 26, 2007
chained_bear Jolly.
No wait! It was Andy.
;) Nov 26, 2007
bilby Anybody know the swagman's name? Nov 26, 2007
seanahan And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled. Feb 6, 2007
chained_bear Australia. A swag or bedroll. To go waltzing matilda is to wander the countryside. Feb 6, 2007