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- noun Plural form of
bullocky .
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Examples
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But the "bullockies" are better off than the horse-teamsters, for bad chaff is sold by the pound and corn is worth its weight in gold.
Children of the Bush Henry Lawson 1894
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It showed the sparkling coast and dusty interior, city and country life, immigrants, children, squatters, politicians and bullockies.
Archive 2009-01-01 Hels 2009
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It showed the sparkling coast and dusty interior, city and country life, immigrants, children, squatters, politicians and bullockies.
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Now, with official stock routes for the drovers and the bullockies vanished into legend, things were more amicable between vagabonds and stay-puts.
The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977
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In the old days drovers and their hungry, grass-ruining mobs of stock had not been welcome, and the bullockies a hated breed as they inched their mammoth teams of from twenty to eighty oxen through the middle of the squatters’ best grazing.
The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977
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