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ˈoff-sider, offsider
[f. off side phr. + -er1.]
1. An animal on the off side (see off a. 2 a) of a team (see also quot. 1898); hence, an assistant, spec. a bullock-driver's assistant; a companion, deputy, partner. orig. and chiefly Austral. and N.Z. colloq.
1880H. C. Kendall Songs from Mountains 41 And, as to a team, over gully and hill He can travel with twelve on the breadth of a quill, And boss the unlucky ‘offsides’. 1898Bulletin (Sydney) 17 Dec. (Red page), In draught work the laziest or worst horse is on the off-side, under the whip; thus it is an inferior man or thing that is a bit off, off color, or an offsider. 1903‘T. Collins’ Such is Life 46 Jam him agen the off-sider, so's he can't shift. 1905A. B. Paterson Old Bush Songs 6 They say there's no delay To get an off-sider For the old bullock dray. Ibid. 8 An offsider is a bullock-driver's assistant. 1924‘R. Daly’ Outpost xx. 191 A high and mighty gentleman is Mr. Whelan nowadays! Seems to think I'm only an off-sider, and that miners are the only people who know anything about the country. 1929W. Smyth Girl from Mason Creek 206 The Maori boy who acted as the cook's offsider. 1931V. Palmer Separate Lives 244 Shorty's advent as off⁓sider did nothing to help matters. He and the bullock⁓driver had long arguments on the way. 1934T. Wood Cobbers 19 Friends with everybody though, and an off⁓sider of the Governor, too. 1942‘M. Innes’ Daffodil Affair ii. 46 Too right, Mr Wine. You couldn't have a better off-sider than Ron. 1952A. Grimble Pattern of Islands 243 There was nothing for it but to leave me hanging around at Ocean Island as offsider to anyone the High Commissioner might send up to take charge. 1962John o' London's 19 July 64/2 Jill Dawson takes a job as an off⁓sider—‘more than a secretary and different’. 1973Nation Rev. (Melbourne) 31 Aug. 1451/1 ‘Would you wait outside,’ ‘Salisbury’ now said to his offsider. ‘I'd like a word with matron in private.’ 1977National Times (Austral.) 17 Jan. 5/5 He now works as a truckie's offsider.
2. In certain games: a player who is off side. rare.
1927Daily Tel. 21 Feb. 14/1 Nor did the referee have an eagle eye for the offsider. |