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Definition of cocky country in English: cocky countrynoun mass nounAustralian Areas where the main business is small-scale farming. beyond the village lay hundreds of miles of cocky country Example sentencesExamples - They journey dauntlessly through the cocky country, which for the purposes of this book is a stark and terrible desert.
- We went to a biofuel conference—it is taking off big in cocky country here—and there are a few quirky things you must be aware of when using this stuff.
- Often enough a bush-worker would wander, by mistake as it were, into cocky country.
- In this open cocky country, the wintry winds of June are most unkind, and it always rains, or seems to be always raining.
- As assisted migrants, we were more or less doomed to work in cocky country.
- I was a bit worried that the mover of the motion might have taken a lead from my friend on my left from cocky country.
- You should have seen that coming from the cocky country.
- They must have been shearing around the cocky country in Western Australia at some time or other.
- In that part of the country where the properties are much smaller—in cocky country, for example—you didn't find those long tales.
- Located in the heartland of cocky country, the Waikato pits fuelled the dairy factories that were churning out more and more butter and cheese.
Origin Early 20th century: from cocky3 + country. |