fruit cocky
noun (plural fruit cockies) Australian
A person who owns or runs a fruit farm: the fruit cocky hates to see pickers standing idle...
- Not much of a living as a fruit cocky and slim pickings for the pickers.
- There is nothing a fruit cocky hates to see as much as pickers standing idle.
- The fruit cocky arrived early to give us our jobs.
Origin
Late 19th century: from fruit + cocky3.
- peripeteia
- peripety
- peripharyngeal
- peripherad
- peripheral
- peripheral edema
- peripheralisation
- peripheralise
- peripheralism
- peripheralist
- peripherality
- peripheralization
- peripheralize
- peripherally
- peripheral nerve
- peripheral nervous system
- in the middle of
- in the name of
- in the nature of
- in the nature of things
- in the neighbourhood of
- in the nick of time
- in the nip
- in the nude
- in the offing