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ˈbullocky, a. and n.
[f. bullock n. + -y1.]
A. adj.
1. Of the nature of or relating to bullocks.
1881Grant Bush Life Queensl. I. iii. 29 As a rule the conversation was very horsey or bullocky.
2. Having to do with driving bullocks or managing cattle. Austral.
1885T. L. Work in Australasian Printers' Keepsake 16 ‘When you make Mokepilly,’ quoth one of the sunburnt bullocky men, ‘keep on the brush fence{ddd}’ 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer xii. 121 By George, Jack, you're a regular bullocky boy.
3. Resembling a bullock.
1890Temple Bar Jan. 118 With more enthusiasm than persons of his bullocky conformation commonly exhibit. 1892Illustr. Sporting & Dram. News 27 Aug. 862/3 Deer get bullocky if fed on ordinary cattle rations. 1954E. C. Studholme Te Waimate (ed. 2) xx. 179 The swine made a bullocky rush for home.
B. n.
a. A bullock-driver. Austral. and N.Z. colloq.
1889in Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang. 1891G. Chamier Philosopher Dick II. xii. 335 ‘And as for them bullockies,’ said she, [etc.]. 1900H. Lawson On Track 49 The party had been increased by Jimmy Nowlett, the bullocky. 1934T. Wood Cobbers vi. 82 He was a bullocky, one of a race which speaks straight and spares none, like the bargees. 1966‘J. Hackston’ Father clears Out 92 A red-bearded, six-foot bullocky, known everywhere for his cleverness with his whip.
b. Language of the sort used by bullock-drivers; swearing. Austral. and N.Z. slang.
1916Anzac Bk. 103/2 We heard fragments of language, of the category known in Australia as ‘bullocky’. 1941Baker N.Z. Slang v. 47 The noun bullocky has even been evolved to describe the language used by such men.
c. bullocky's (or bullockys') joy: treacle or golden syrup. Austral. and N.Z. slang.
1918R. H. Knyvett Over There iv. xvii. 158 This last is merely molasses or ‘golden syrup’ called ‘bullocky's joy’..because it is the chief covering for slices of bread with the bullock-driver. 1929A. Russell Diary 6 Mar. in Tramp-Royal (1934) xxxi. 202 Damper and ‘bullockys' joy’ (treacle) take the place of porridge. 1946L. R. C. Macfarlane Amuri iii. 109 Out in camp he lived on hard bread, meat and bullockey's joy (treacle). |