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单词 cocky farmer
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cocky farmer
C1. Australian and New Zealand. General use as a modifier and with other nouns, with the sense ‘that is (a) cocky’, (in sense 2), esp. in cocky farmer.
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1895 Parl. Deb. (New S. Wales) No. 4. 395 The small ‘cocky’ farmer at Queanbeyan will dismiss his gilded coachman.
1899 H. Lawson in Bulletin (Sydney) 11 Feb. 35/1 It is with the farmer or ‘cockie’ class that the writer is here chiefly concerned.
1936 ‘R. Hyde’ Passport to Hell ii. 51 If one of the ‘cocky’ specials fell among strangers..he might be wary of the boots that would as soon kick in a strike-breaker's head as not.
2010 Newcastle (Austral.) Herald (Nexis) 11 June 9 The mining industry reminds me sometimes of Hanrahan, the cocky farmer from the old John O'Brien poem we read in school.
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