swaggie

IPA: swˈægi

Examples of "swaggie" in Sentences

Looking at this scene is a swaggie.
"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').