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Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Australia, humorous An inhabitant of Western Australia.
- n. Any species of the family Cylindrachetidae of subterranean insects, found in Australia, New Guinea and Argentina.
Etymologies
- From sand + groper. The sense “Western Australian” may originate either as a reference to the relatively large proportion of desert in the state or to gold mining during the rushes of the 19th Century. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Dr Yobbo, should have stayed with Triple M! over here in sandgroper land we had 96 ‘top aussie’ songs.”
“Mr Jones is a sandgroper through and through, and has dedicated many years to getting WA's fair share of grants and pushing for galleries to procure WA works on a number of different boards.”
“It would be rather better if the savage sandgroper could say why he thought the idea itself wasn't a goer, rather than persecuting its promoter.”
“By virty, November 20, 2009 @ 10:22 pm if your into surfin’ necronauts and drugged out hippies, tim wintons “breath” is a fair read even for a fkn sandgroper. he’s even discovered my top secret breaks outta margaret river and those killer lefts on the eyre peninsular. hasn’t done the rock/coral shelf rights and lefts off of the old albany whaling station salmon holes tho’.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sandgroper’.
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The Porn Birds
It's the winter of 2039. Global warming and rapacious development is taking a serious toll on habitat for birds all around the world. In desperation, they turn to new careers in the feather-flick...
goatsucker, french magpie, timberdoodle, butterbutt, popinjay, logcock, old cranky, long john, sprog, wedgie, bonxie, baldpate and 95 more...
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Demonyms
Demonyms are words that describe a person who is citizen or resident of a particular place. There are countless demonyms so I'm collecting the slightly irregular or unusual ones.
glaswegian, bosniak, kosovar, novocastrian, us american, terran, grecian, yolngu, aztec, cantabrigian, norse, leopolitan and 102 more...
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pax australiana
first in, best dr..., chalk and cheese, chuck a sickie, banana bender, sandgroper, croweater, budgie smuggler, bludge, bathers, swimmers, bogan, buck's night and 73 more...
Tweets
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bilby As I said ... Dec 6, 2007
kewpid Also refers to this interesting looking insect. Dec 6, 2007
bilby Australian slang - a person from Western Australia. Dec 6, 2007