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churchyarder: Sounding as if dying--ready for the churchyard = cemetery
cobber: mate, friend. Used to be derived from Hebrew chaver via
Yiddish. General opinion now seems to be that it entered the
language too early for that--and an English etymology is preferred.
fiver: a five pound (sterling) note (or "bill")
fossick: pick out gold, in a fairly desultory fashion. In old
"mullock" heaps or crvices in rocks.
jackaroo: (Jack + kangaroo; sometimes jackeroo)--someone, in early
days a new immigrant from England, learning to work on a
sheep/cattle station (U.S. "ranch".)
kiddy: young child. "kid" plus ubiquitous Australia "-y" or "-ie"
nobbler: a drink, esp. of spirits
overlanding: driving (or, "droving", cattle from pasture to market
or railhead.
pannikin: a metal mug.
Pipeclay: or Eurunderee, Where Lawson spent much of his early life
(including his three years of school...
Poley: name for s hornless (or dehorned) cow.
skillion(-room): A "lean-to", a room built up against the back of
some other building, with separate roof.
sliprails: portion of a fence where the rails are lossely fitted
so that they may be removed from one side and animal let through.
smoke-ho: a short break from, esp., heavy physical work, and those who
wish to can smoke.
sov.: sovereign, gold coin worth one pound sterling
splosh: money
Sqinny: nickname for someone with a squint.
Stousher: nickname for someone often in a fight (or "stoush")
swagman (swaggy): Generally, anyone who is walking in the "outback"
with a swag.
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