blackfellow

American  

[blak-fel-oh] / ˈblækˌfɛl oʊ /

Also blackfella

noun

Older Use: Usually Offensive.

1. a term used to refer to an Aboriginal inhabitant of Australia.

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Etymology

Origin of blackfellow

First recorded in 1730–40; black + fellow

Example Sentences

“What?” and so the Hebrew, the Greek, the Maori, the Australian blackfellow, the Norseman—in a word, each race of mankind—has formed for itself an explanation of existence, an answer to the questions of the groping child-mind—“Who made the world?”

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The same writer mentions the case of a blackfellow, who began digging a grave close beside the kitchen door of a Mr. Campbell.

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So, pointing to them, he asked what was in the fire, and the blackfellow replied with one word "lubra."

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The elderly blackfellow and one of the others we had seen yesterday paid us a visit, and in the course of the day he brought the others of his party and a man about his own age whom we had not seen before.

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Whilst I was preparing the tea, Brown went to shoot pigeons; and, whilst thus employed, he was surprised by the cooee of a Blackfellow; and, on looking round, he saw one on the opposite bank of the creek making signs to him, as if to ask in what direction we were going.

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