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Definition of sheep cocky in English: sheep cockynoun Australian, NZ informal A small-scale sheep farmer. there's no money in wool — most of the sheep cockies have gone into cotton Example sentencesExamples - He was a surprisingly somnolent sheep cocky.
- He was a retired sheep-cocky wary of anything not to do with farming.
- He was wearing a sheep-cocky's wide-brimmed hat.
- Dad was a sheep cocky, so I'm a sheep cocky.
- They were the woolgrowers, the runholders, the sheep-cockies, the back-countrymen.
- I reckon you're about to find out how miserable sheep cockies are.
- We'd been brought up as sheep cockies, and the first thing we learned was to despise goats.
- This old sheep cocky and his missus had been walking along the top of a sandbank.
- These poor sheep cockies, whose fear was not the loss of faith but the loss of farms and fleeces.
- He'd call in to talk grain with a few of the sheep cockies.
Origin Late 19th century: from sheep + cocky2 (from the Australian sense of cockatoo 'a small-scale farmer'). |