jumbuckn.
/ˈdʒʌmbʌk/, U.S. /ˈdʒəmˌbək/, Australian English /ˈdʒʌmbʌk/, New Zealand English /ˈdʒʌmbʌk/ Australian and New Zealand.
In Australian Aboriginal and Maori usage: sheep; in frequent colloquial use among stock-keepers in the Bush.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep)
sheepc825
sowthc1175
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fleece1783
jumbuck1824
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1824 W. Walker Let. 26 Jan. in W. S. Ramson Austral. Eng. (1966) vi. 107 They smacked their lips and stroked their breasts, ‘boodjerry patta! murry boodjerry!—fat as jimbuck!!’ i.e. good food, very good, fat as mutton.
1845 C. Griffith Present State Port Philip 162.
1855 W. Ridley in Trans. Philol. Soc. 77 Jimbugg, a slang name for sheep, they sound jimbŭ.
1871 C. L. Money Knocking about in N.Z. i. 7 A pivot..shot the unsuspecting ‘jumbucks’ into the water below.
1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Feb. The process by which the ‘jumbucks’ are shorn.
1896 H. Tichborne Noqu Talanoa: Stories S. Seas 95 Our girls very often possess fathers who own considerable stretches of ‘jumbuck’ property.
1898 M. Roberts Keeper of Waters 136 I see this all white with cotton-bush, and it shall be white with jumbucks to eat it down.
1933 L. G. D. Acland in Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 28 Oct. 17/7 Jumbuck, slang for sheep..has always been in common use here.
1934 B. Penton Landtakers (1935) vii. 50 Did ye not guts up a dollop of that jumbuck I drove off..last week.
1967 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 16 Apr. 2 The swagman who shoved a jumbuck in his tucker bag was stealing a sheep.
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