cane cocky
noun (plural cane cockies) Australian
The owner of a cane plantation: he sold small plots of land to cane cockies...
- What to do with a drunken Cane Cocky?
- It was in the far north of Australia where the cane cockies work the earth.
- She rode up on the riding points that some cane-cocky had carelessly left on the blind side of a curve.
Origin
Late 19th century: from cane + cocky3.
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