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- Jumbuck - Wikipedia
Jumbuck is an Australian term of Aboriginal origin for a male sheep, and is featured in Banjo Paterson's poem "Waltzing Matilda"
- Jumbuck - Wikiwand
Jumbuck is an Australian term of Aboriginal origin for a male sheep, and is featured in Banjo Paterson's poem "Waltzing Matilda"
- jumbuck: meaning, definition - WordSense
jumbuck (English) Origin history Unknown, from pidgin, possibly from an Australian Aboriginal language, although it appears also to have moved from pidgin to Aboriginal Numerous derivations have been proposed
- jumbuck - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Unknown, from pidgin, possibly from an Australian Aboriginal language, although it appears also to have moved from pidgin to Aboriginal [1] Numerous derivations have been proposed
- jumbuck - definition and meaning - Wordnik
noun Australia A sheep [Australian English pidgin dombock, jumbuck, perhaps from Kamilaroi (Pama-Nyungan language of southeast Australia) dhimba, or Malay domba (from Persian dumba, tail (as that of a fat-tailed sheep, prized for its cooking fat), from Middle Persian dumbak, from Old Iranian duma-) ]
- Jumbuck - Edgars Mission Farm Sanctuary
Where once the mighty Werribee River flowed, now only cracked earth and putrid sludge remained Long-dead gums stood like ghosts, their darkened trunks scarred by waters that once lapped high but now lay vanished Silence hung eerily over the valley—thick and hollow No fish No frogs Even the birds had fled But not kindness
- Callum Maclachlan, Joint Managing Director of Jumbuck Pastoral
The word jumbuck has grown beyond its initial definition to become an integral piece of Australiana Immortalised in Banjo Paterson’s poem ‘Waltzing Matilda’ as a prize worth dying for, the jumbuck holds more weight as Aussie shorthand than an alternative term for sheep
- jumbuck, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
What does the noun jumbuck mean? There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun jumbuck See ‘Meaning use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence
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