swaggie

IPA: swˈægi

noun

  • (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A swagman.
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Examples of "swaggie" in Sentences

  • "Some poor old beggar of a swaggie, I expect," Jim said.
  • "He's certainly not the ordinary swaggie," Norah said slowly.
  • The meaning here may be that the swaggie spends much of his time in jail.
  • She said she would; but a heavy-weight "swaggie" could have come in and sat on her and had a smoke without waking her.
  • Had it not been for the horse and the dogs he might have hoped for a swaggie or some down-and-out wayfarer caught, trapped.
  • Once a jolly jumbuck camped by a billabong under the shade of a swaggie it seems and he sang and he watched while Conzinc mined uranium
  • "Of course, a beaten track to your camp would be nothing more or less than an invitation to any swaggie or black fellow to follow it up."
  • To go "on the wallaby" or "on the wallaby track" or to "hump the drum" is to travel outback as a swaggie or sundowner, ie a tramp or itinerant worker.
  • He landed the swaggie first with one fist and then with the other, and the swaggie reckoned he'd been struck by a thunderbolt when they fished him out of the creek, where he had rolled!
  • Some terms had (and have) a limited lifespan, but no word once printed is ever lost from the language entirely, and shortlived expressions are often significant markers of a particular historical era ( 'swaggie', 'six o'clock swill', 'Rogernomics').

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