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stringybark cockatoo(also stringybark settler) noun Australian informalA poor farmer: a belt-tightening diet worse than that of the poorest stringybark cockatoo...- With no other means of support, the miner goes to work for a "stringybark cockatoo."
- He traces the evolution of the Australian balled through the satirical ditties in which hired men expressed their feelings about the "stringybark cockatoo" who employed them.
- Dad and Dave were not pastoral workers, bushmen proper, but poor selectors, 'stringybark cockatoos', who were sneered at by the men from farther out.
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