bullocky

American  

[bool-uh-kee] / ˈbʊl ə ki /

noun

Australian.

• bullockies
  plural

1. a bullock driver.

2. the coarse language thought to be typical of a bullock driver.

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adjective

1. Australian. pertaining to driving bullocks or managing cattle.

2. resembling a bullock.

bullocky British  

/ ˈbʊləkɪ /

noun

1. informal the driver of a team of bullocks

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• bullockies
  plural

Etymology

Origin of bullocky

1880–85; bullock + -y ¹, subsequently nominalized

Example Sentences

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bullocky bullockies

To world-famed Mayo Clinic went bullocky Baseballer Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees, benched since early last month, to find out what ails his once-powerful legs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not so quick on a sprint—you find that yourself, Munro, eh what?—but a good hard-working bullocky forward.

From The Stark Munro Letters by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Well, good or bad, your slow, plodding bullocky is the true pioneer.

From From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush by Charles W. L. Bryde

I soon saw that nothing could be donePg 224 on the spot, and ordered it to continue its "bullocky" progress to the camp.

From The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia by Cora Gordon

The party had been increased by Jimmy Nowlett, the bullocky, who had just arrived with a load of fencing wire and provisions for Middleton.

From On the Track by Henry Lawson

But the "bullockies" are better off than the horse-teamsters, for bad chaff is sold by the pound and corn is worth its weight in gold.

From Children of the Bush by Henry Lawson