outbackery
/aʊtˈbak(ə)ri
/noun [mass noun] Australian
1The attitudes, values, and behaviour supposedly characteristic of people who live in the outback: we veer between outdated outbackery and anxious superiority...
- What I hate is the back-patting chest-slapping Aussie blokey outbackery that seems to me contrived, blinkered, and ersatz.
- Another example of outbackery is that at some time someone must have tried to get a wide load across the bridge but it was a little too narrow, so they took to the bridge cross braces and cut pieces off so the load could pass through.
- This is where all sorts of devious outbackery happens, like building a bridge where the approach road runs through the middle of a pub!
1.1Literature or art set in or influenced by the outback: the novel looks at first sight like just another piece of run-of-the-mill outbackery...
- When critics castigate him for painting what they call 'outbackery' it ought to be remembered that in terms of Australian contemporary painting, he largely originated the current interest in these themes.
- When I returned to the stamping ground of my childhood, I declared that I wouldn't join the army of outbackery scribes; I wouldn't write about it.
- Both of these plays are bits of outbackery.
Origin
1960s: from outback + -ery.
- close (or shut) one's eyes to
- close (or shut) one's mind to (or against)
- close (or shut) the door on (or to)
- closeout
- close-packed
- close quarters
- closer
- close range
- close ranks
- close-ratio
- close reach
- closer settlement
- close-run
- close season
- close-set
- close shave
- close something out
- close-stool
- closet
- closet case
- closet drama
- closeted
- close the books
- close the door on (or to)
- close to home