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Definition of Swaggie
1. Noun. An itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work.
Geographical relationships: Australia, Commonwealth Of Australia
Generic synonyms: Gipsy, Gypsy, Itinerant
Definition of Swaggie
1. n. A swagman.
Definition of Swaggie
1. Noun. (AU informal) swagman ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Swaggie
1. a swagman [n -S] - See also: swagman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swaggie
Literary usage of Swaggie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases and Usages with by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"109 : " Here's a swaggie stopped to camp, with flour for a damper, and a handful of
... There are variants, Swagger (more general in New Zealand), swaggie, ..."
2. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"swaggie, «. a humorous variation on swagman. 1892. EW Hornung, 'Under Two Skies,' p.
109: " Here's a swaggie stopped to camp, with flour for a damper, ..."
3. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1901)
"To play at the swaggie waggie, or shuggie shu." Compare " shig shog, to rock or
vibrate," Holderness Glossary, E. Dial. Soc., 1877. Shuttle. ..."
4. On the Wool Track by Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean (1910)
"... back fences; sundowner, swaggie, unemployed." There is no such thing in the West.
The long stage from tank to tank—thirty miles if it is an inch, ..."
5. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1901)
"... particularly that resin of his, which was the very best kind of resin for the
purpose and had been specially commended by an old swaggie with one eye, ..."
6. Australian Life in Town and Country by Ernest Charles Buley (1905)
"... entails a considerable expense upon the station-owners, and probably is
responsible for much of the obloquy which has been heaped upon the "swaggie. ..."
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