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- noun Australia A bundle of possessions, often tied up in a sack; a
swag .
Etymologies
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Examples
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HEY MICHELLE, IM SERIOUS, check up with a stylist .... matilda Johnson
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Get well soon the people of this country needs you. matilda Johnson
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OH hai, LadyM…once a jolly swagman, camped by a billagong, under da shade ub a kooliba tree and he sang as sat an wayted wile his billy boiled, yull come a waltzing matilda wif me…happy to refresh da eerwurm fur ya!
Someday my prints will come… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Now I can expend less energy imagining what a blonde / brunette woman would look like naked, trapped in a cage. matilda 3:50 pm on July 17, 2008 | # | Reply i always have trouble with the description of sexuality as power.
OH, PETA, YOU MAKE MY WORK SO EASY » Sociological Images 2008
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The Germans suddenly discovered they had nothing that could take out a matilda -- they even seemed to be stuka proof top armour of 2 makes it hard with bombs.
Camp Cromwell 17/03/2005 Nick 2005
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Eventually he left a matilda lend leased to the Ruskies to guard the objective -- but I was able to move to threaten the other objective, so he had to use his AA to protect that one .....
Archive 2005-07-01 Nick 2005
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Eventually he left a matilda lend leased to the Ruskies to guard the objective -- but I was able to move to threaten the other objective, so he had to use his AA to protect that one .....
Fort Floreat 06/07/05 Nick 2005
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The Germans suddenly discovered they had nothing that could take out a matilda -- they even seemed to be stuka proof top armour of 2 makes it hard with bombs.
Archive 2005-03-01 Nick 2005
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He was pretty angry, all right; I began to understand that if Carl Gustaf hadn't survived it would have been waltzing matilda for Flashy if Sapten had had his way.
Royal Flash Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1970
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Cant imagine you strippin, but hey matilda rhe hun has done some awesome dancin to "have you ever been mellow" down in tijuana with that infamous donkey of hers, so anythings possible.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2010
chained_bear commented on the word matilda
Australia. A swag or bedroll. To go waltzing matilda is to wander the countryside.
February 7, 2007
seanahan commented on the word matilda
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled.
February 7, 2007
bilby commented on the word matilda
Anybody know the swagman's name?
November 27, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word matilda
Jolly.
No wait! It was Andy.
;)
November 27, 2007
bilby commented on the word matilda
I declare chained_bear the winner.
There's some speculation that matilda is meaningless as there is scant evidence of its usage beyond this song. Perhaps a pet name for someone Paterson loved.
November 27, 2007
uselessness commented on the word matilda
Well, it's also quite possibly the greatest book Roald Dahl ever wrote.
November 27, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word matilda
Bilby, do you mean scant evidence of its usage today, or scant evidence of its ever having been used outside the poem/song?
I would argue it's kind of like mome raths or brillig--sure it wasn't (and isn't) used much outside the poem, but by virtue of the poem achieving great visibility, the terms have now entered the language, so... Paterson's job here is done. :)
November 27, 2007
bilby commented on the word matilda
During his lifetime, mainly. I just remember a time when the women's soccer team was looking for a nickname - all the iconic animals had already been spoken for - and came up with The Matildas. And there was a bit of chit-chat about what a matilda might be and no-one really knew.
November 27, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word matilda
"Waltzing Matilda" by A.B. ("Banjo") Paterson (as comments below attest). (This comment's for gangerh's "songbirds" list.)
February 9, 2008
goodkitten commented on the word matilda
Matilda by Roald Dahl
June 16, 2012