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Definition of cheque-proud in English: cheque-proudadjective Australian, NZ (of a seasonal worker) recently paid for a season's work and anxious to spend money. cheque-proud shearers were there in scores Example sentencesExamples - We were cheque-proud, as shearers would say at the end of a good season.
- He does all the cleaning, burying dead snakes, and Sunday work about the place that cheque-proud and ordinary stockmen are not asked to do.
- We'd come back cheque-proud, our chests sticking out, and you'd reckon we were millionaires.
- The men who drifted about from station to station till they became cheque-proud would come in, hand the cheque to the landlord, and drink the proceeds in a wild revel.
- Once old Bill got cheque-proud, he wasn't fit to live.
- The cheque-proud shearers were there in scores.
- Are they never to know the feeling of being cheque-proud, and threatening to go out on strike?
- He looks a bit cheque-proud, by the way he's standing.
- He had not drawn a half-penny of his wages in the 12 months he had been there, and was therefore somewhat cheque-proud.
- Any other fellow would have been cheque-proud long ago.
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