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Definition of cowspanker in English: cowspankernounˈkaʊspaŋkə Australian, NZ informal A dairy farmer. there was talk about putting a tax on the cowspankers Example sentencesExamples - I got stuck in Andrews Creek next day on my way down-country again looking for another cowspanker.
- The cow spanker had nothing in common with the dairy worker
- One side of her family had never known a cowspanker, and mentally she took after that side.
- The cow-spankers all over the North Island have had a grand innings this season.
- After a lifetime as ploughman cow-spanker and lorry-driver, he had now in his old age become breathless and weak from bronchial illness.
Origin Late 19th century: from cow1 + spanker. |