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单词 cocky country
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Definition of cocky country in English:

cocky country

noun
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.

 
 
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