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By the 1830s, the term in Australia had transferred from meaning goods acquired by a thief to the possessions and daily necessaries carried by a bushman. The compound swagman and colloquial variation swaggie first appeared in the 1850s during the Australian gold rushes , alongside less common terms such as bundleman . [ 3 ]
The term used to be an insult, but has recently become more widely used in contexts that “are neither derogatory or negative,” according to the Australian National Dictionary. The origins of ...
One of the first dictionaries of Australian slang was Karl Lentzner's Dictionary of the Slang-English of Australia and of Some Mixed Languages in 1892. [ non-primary source needed ] The first dictionary based on historical principles that covered Australian English was E. E. Morris 's Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases ...
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Before You Watch NCIS: Sydney, a Handy Glossary of Aussie/UK Slang and Terms. Matt Webb Mitovich. November 11, 2023 at 4:00 PM. TV’s fifth NCIS series is the first one with an international setting.
Tinned Dog was a slang term for canned meat in Australia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [1] The expression was mostly used in the Western Australian goldfields where prospectors and diggers could spend weeks in the outback and relied on tinned food, which was convenient and filling although monotonous.
Damper is a thick home-made bread traditionally prepared by early European settlers in Australia. [citation needed] It is a bread made from wheat-based dough.[citation needed] Flour, salt and water, [1] [2] with some butter if available, [citation needed] is kneaded and baked in the coals of a campfire, [2] either directly or within a camp oven.
Tucker bag is a traditional Australian term for a storage bag used by travellers in the outback, typically a swagman or bushman, for carrying subsistence food (the term tucker being Australian and New Zealand slang for food). [1]