- a variation of jackeroo.
jackaroo
Americannoun
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I suppose, and you can't have Peter Allen chewing the ram-stag mutton and pretending to be a jackaroo.
From Time Magazine Archive
Said one: "The jackaroo who started that story probably saw a wallaby."
From Time Magazine Archive
None but the greenest jackaroo would venture that risky and foolish observation.
From While the Billy Boils by Lawson, Henry
The new-chum jackaroo is still alive, but he won't ever eat plum pudding any more, he says.
From Children of the Bush by Lawson, Henry
I seen him lift her on, an' he took her right up an' lifted her right inter the saddle, 'stead of holdin' his hand for her to tread on like that new-chum jackaroo we had.
From Children of the Bush by Lawson, Henry
These, and a big bucket-handled frying-pan and a few rusty convict-time arms on the slab walls, were mostly to amuse jackaroos and jackarooesses, and let them think they were getting into the Australian-dontcherknow at last.
From The Rising of the Court by Lawson, Henry
Over the whirr and roar and hum all day long, and with iteration that is childish and irritating to the intelligent greenhand, float unthinkable adjectives and adverbs, addressed to jumbucks, jackaroos, and mates indiscriminately.
From On the Track by Lawson, Henry
They'd tramped a long hungry track and had only met a few wretched jackaroos, driven out of the cities by hard times, and tramping hopelessly west.
From Children of the Bush by Lawson, Henry
Why, where I live there's dozens of English public school men working as cockies and jackaroos.
From The Kangaroo Marines by Campbell, R. W.
Well, to make it short, one of the jackaroos went to the police and Bogan cleared out.
From Children of the Bush by Lawson, Henry
I am jackarooing there, as they say in Australia, which is to say that I am imbibing instruction in the craft in consideration of my valuable services.”
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram
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