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  • noun Australia An Australian aborigine.

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Examples

  • There's also "blackfella"/"whitefella", but like a lot of extremely Australian words barbie, snag, etc.

    languagehat.com: ABORIGINES. 2005

  • “Poor dumb blackfella,” he murmured emotionlessly to his companion as the other man picked up the briefcase.

    Impossible Places Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

  • "Poor dumb blackfella, " he murmured emotionlessly to his companion as the other man picked up the briefcase.

    Impossible Places Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

  • He said that the steamer was a long way away; but "blackfella he make 'em smoke; blackfella bin tell 'em."

    Confessions of a Beachcomber 1887

  • (Although I note that whitefellas learned pretty quickly to be respectful of blackfella knowledge if they got stuck in the bush or needed a tracker to follow someone).

    On Line Opinion - Latest Articles Legal Eagle 2010

  • At the subsequent trial in 2007, "we were all ... sorted into our respective castes - blackfella, copper, lawyer, journalist."

    Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk Duncan Campbell 2009

  • Of Aboriginal and Maltese background, he grew up in Warrnambool in Victoria's southwest, facing the same issues as these boys -- the challenge to stay in school, to achieve his football dreams when some family members tried to handbrake him, accusing him of being a "coconut", not a real blackfella.

    The Australian | News | 2009

  • Former ATSIC commissioner Kim Hill sees the question being asked "in most communities" about "who's a real blackfella?"

    newmatilda.com - Comments 2009

  • I was all legs and ankles then - skinny tall blackfella 'kid' with buggerall meat on me!

    Kiss & Blog Wombat 2008

  • Matt I have lotsa blackfella friends and they assure me the birds are shit eating.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Column filed, car to garage, deadline beckons. 2009

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