| 单词 | dungaree settler |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdungaree settler dungaree settler n. Australian colloquial (now historical) a poor settler, or one of low social status.With reference to the typical clothing of such settlers, who commonly wore garments made of dungaree (see quot. 1826). ΚΠ 1826 J. Atkinson Acct. Agric. & Grazing New S. Wales iii. 29 The early Settlers, and the lower order of the present—what are technically termed in the Colony Dungaree Settlers, from a coarse cotton manufacture of India which forms their usual clothing. 1864 Brisbane Courier 13 Dec. New South Wales, where the name and style of the ‘dungaree settler’ still lives. 1901 Lithgow (Austral.) Mercury 19 Mar. 1/1 During the forties the colonials were divided (by name) into the following classes:—Settlers, squatters, cockatoos or dungaree settlers, and stringybarkers. 1986 R. Hughes Fatal Shore (1988) ix. 286 Because it favored standardized work..assignment worked better for the large farmer than for the dirt-farming ‘dungaree settler’. < as lemmas |
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