cocky country
noun [mass noun] Australian
Areas where the main business is small-scale farming: beyond the village lay hundreds of miles of cocky country...
- In this open cocky country, the wintry winds of June are most unkind, and it always rains, or seems to be always raining.
- They must have been shearing around the cocky country in Western Australia at some time or other.
- Located in the heartland of cocky country, the Waikato pits fuelled the dairy factories that were churning out more and more butter and cheese.
Origin
Early 20th century: from cocky3 + country.