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1856 W. W. Dobie Recoll. Visit Port-Phillip 91 The flattering compliment meant for my brother and myself, that ‘there was no gammon along o' two fellow Dobie’.

1872 J. H. Kerr Glimpses Life in Victoria 195 Three fellow potato. The word ‘fellow’ was always used as an additional qualification of the noun; as for instance ‘fine fellow horse’, or ‘big fellow river’, which meant simply ‘a fine horse’, or ‘a big river’.

1884 A. W. Stirling Never Never Land 93 Everything is a ‘fellow’; ‘one fellow bob’, the black calls a shilling; ‘me got three fellow gin’, meaning ‘I have three wives’ and so on.

1895 G. Ranken Windabyne 190 Poor fella Doctor!

1908 ‘G. Seagram’ Bushmen All 310 Now you go longa Warrego an' big pfella pleeseman hang you longa rope.

1921 A. B. Paterson Man from Snowy River (new ed.) 74 What parson tellin' you, Ole Mister Dodd, Tell you in Sunday-school? Big pfeller God!

1936 M. Franklin All that Swagger iv. 46 Danny had established himself as a superman, a big pfella chief.

1936 I. L. Idriess Cattle King xxix. 257 How much would you want to make a big pfella flood, Paddy?

1953 L. & C. Rees Spinifex Walkabout 125 The homestead itself is..two-storeyed—as the natives say ‘him two-fella house’.

1965 R. Ottley By Sandhills 132 I show you kangaroo. Big fella one, an' mary gottim piccanin. Piccanin along belly.

1983 K. W. Manning In their own Hands 188 As a lad..he was referred to by the Islanders as ‘white fella piccaninny b'long Boss’.

2001 P. Watt Flight of Eagle (Electronic ed.) The trooper's dark eyes rolled, revealing a smoky whiteness.‘Kill ′im one fella gin’.