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.
- lee shore
- lee side
- Lee, Spike
- Lee's Summit
- leet
- leetspeak
- Leeuwenhoek, Antoni van
- leeward
- Leeward Islands
- leewardly
- lee wave
- leeway
- Lee–Enfield
- Lee–Enfield rifle
- Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
- left
- left and right
- left-and-right shot
- left back
- left bank
- left bower
- left brain
- left-brained
- left-click
- left coast