gumsucker
/ˈɡʌmsʌkə
/noun Australian informal
A native-born Australian, as distinct from an immigrant: there is a forwardness among our youthful gumsuckers...
- The gumsuckers were a happy lot of campers when the first state secondary school flung open its doors to knock some learnin' into some skulls.
- 'Good on the Maori,' murmered the Gumsucker.
- Gumsuckers tried to turn Eucalyptus into a patriotic emblem.
Origin
Mid 19th century: apparently from the early settlers' habit of chewing the gum of native trees.
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