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jumbuck Austral. and N.Z.|ˈdʒʌmbʌk|
[Native Australian, with the forms jimba, jombok, dombock, dumbog; said to have meant orig. ‘the white mist preceding a shower’, to which a distant flock of sheep was likened by the natives: see Morris Austral Eng. s.v.]
A name given by Australian and New Zealand aborigines to sheep; in frequent colloquial use among stock-keepers in the Bush.
1824W. Walker Let. 26 Jan. in W. S. Ramson Austral. Eng. (1966) vi. 107 They smacked their lips and stroked their breasts, ‘boodjerry patta! murry boodjerry!—fat as jimbuck!!’ i.e. good food, very good, fat as mutton. 1845C. Griffith Pres. St. Pt. Phillip Distr. N.S.W. 162 (Morris). 1855W. Ridley in Trans. Philol. Soc. 77 (Morris) Jimbugg, a slang name for sheep, they sound jimbŭ. 1871C. L. Money Knocking about in N.Z. i. 7 A pivot..shot the unsuspecting ‘jumbucks’ into the water below. 1889Pall Mall G. 18 Feb., The process by which the ‘jumbucks’ are shorn. 1896H. Tichborne Noqu Talanoa: Stories S. Seas 95 Our girls very often possess fathers who own considerable stretches of ‘jumbuck’ property. 1898M. Roberts Keeper of Waters 136, I see this all white with cotton-bush, and it shall be white with jumbucks to eat it down. 1933L. G. D. Acland in Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 28 Oct. 17/7 Jumbuck, slang for sheep..has always been in common use here. 1934[see guts v.]. 1967Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 16 Apr. 2 The swagman who shoved a jumbuck in his tucker bag was stealing a sheep. |