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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.
Down on His Luck, painted by Frederick McCubbin in 1889, depicts a melancholic swagman "on the Wallaby". Before motor transport became common, the Australian wool industry was heavily dependent on itinerant shearers who carried their swags from farm to farm (called properties or "stations" in Australia), but would not in general have taken kindly to being called "swagmen".
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.
The word was first derived from “yaga,” which means “work” in the Yagara language – the traditional language of the Yagara people who live in the region around what is now known as Brisbane.
Bloke as slang originated in early 19th-Century England, and means “fella.” “Telling porky pies” Another British expression, it means to lie about something.
It is also sometimes referred to as damper, [2] although damper is more commonly used to describe the bread made by non-Indigenous people. With the arrival of Europeans and pre- milled white flour , this bread-making process has almost disappeared (although women were still recorded to be making seedcakes in Central Australia in the 1970s).
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]
It originated with a now-extinct dialect word from the East Midlands in England, where dinkum (or dincum) meant "hard work" or "fair work", which was also the original meaning in Australian English. [13] Dunny – a privy, toilet or lavatory (from British dunnekin). [4] To many Australians "bathroom" is a room with a bath or shower.