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brumby, brumbie Austral.|ˈbrʌmbɪ|
Also brumbee.
[Origin unknown.]
A wild or unbroken horse.
1880Australasian 4 Dec. 712/3 (Morris), These our guide pronounced to be ‘brumbies’, the bush name here [Queensland] for wild horses. 1887Kipling Plain Tales from Hills (1890) 153 People who lost money on him [sc. a race-horse] called him a ‘brumby’. 1899Semon In Austral. Bush 95 When one of the brumbies begins to move all the herd follow. 1916Anzac Book 143 A lanky, sawny bushman who..saddled his brumby, and rode for the nearest town. 1950‘N. Shute’ Town like Alice 90, ‘I got thrown once,’ he said, ‘breaking in a brumby to the saddle.’
b. attrib.
1895Chambers's Jrnl. 702/1 The Brumbie Horse of Australia..is the descendant of runaways of imported stock. 1897Pall Mall Mag. Feb. 190 And so to the unknown interior, past the points where sheep-tracks become brumby-trails. 1925Chambers's Jrnl. 810/1 Wild or ‘brumbie’ mobs, which consisted of mares and one lord of the harem. 1926Brit. Weekly 19 Aug. 412/5 An unbroken, raging devil of a brumby colt. 1967Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 16 Apr. 2 Brumby hunters if they're successful, finish up with a batch of..wild horses. |