blockie
/ˈblɒki/noun Australian
The owner of a small agricultural enterprise, especially an orchard; a smallholder: he picked grapes for a blockie and cut wood for the pumping station...
- Time and again the blockies had to fight to protect their chosen environment.
- The number of blockies was low—some people have scraped up enough money to buy a few acres of land, but are struggling to find the money to build a house on that land.
- Dozens of blockies had written hundreds of submissions, held countless meetings, spent thousands of dollars, and fronted the town planners on several occasions.
Origin
1940s: from block in the sense 'a small parcel of land' + -ie.
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