| 单词 | sand-groper |
| 释义 | > as lemmassand-groper sand-groper n. Australian a jocular appellation for a native West Australian. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Antipodes > native or inhabitant of Australia > [noun] > parts of bushboya1834 Melbournite1838 Melburnian1838 bushman1846 Vandemonian1852 scrubber1859 Queenslander1860 Victorian1862 Sydneysider1865 Centralian1875 Waler1880 Territorian1882 mutton-bird1892 bushy1896 sand-groper1896 tothersider1896 crow-eater1899 Bananalander1900 outbacker1900 Tassie1905 groper1924 Tasmanian1934 mutton-bird eater1941 Top-Ender1941 Kanakalander1945 1896 H. Lawson Let. 3 Sept. (1970) 62 W[estern] A[ustralia] is a fraud... The old Sand-gropers are the best to work for or have dealings with. 1902 J. H. M. Abbott Tommy Cornstalk i In delicate reference to the nature of their country the West Australians are [called] ‘Sand-gropers’. 1934 T. Wood Cobbers 144 So let this mob of Cornstalks, Croweaters, Sandgropers, and Bananalanders go on yapping, say Victorians. 1946 K. S. Prichard Roaring Nineties 214 ‘I'm a sand-groper,’ she snapped... ‘Don't know anything about London or Paris.’ 1974 Sunday Tel. (Austral.) 30 June Mining millionaire Lang Hancock has a sizeable number of sandgropers prepared to support his view that Western Australia should be detached from the rest of the nation. < as lemmas |
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