fruit cocky
noun (plural fruit cockies) Australian
A person who owns or runs a fruit farm: the fruit cocky hates to see pickers standing idle...
- Not much of a living as a fruit cocky and slim pickings for the pickers.
- There is nothing a fruit cocky hates to see as much as pickers standing idle.
- The fruit cocky arrived early to give us our jobs.
Origin
Late 19th century: from fruit + cocky3.