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.
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- potato race
- potato ring
- potato root
- potato root eelworm
- potato rot
- potatory
- potato salad
- potato scab
- potato scone
- potato-scoop
- potato set
- potato shop
- potato-sick
- potato skin
- potato spirit
- potato-spraying
- potato stalk borer
- potato stick
- potato stone
- potato straw
- potato top
- potato-trap
- potato tree