Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An aboriginal Australian.
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- noun obsolete an Australian Aborigine
Etymologies
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Examples
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From their account it has a head and neck like an emu, with a long and flowing mane — feeding on crayfish (with which the river abounds) [yabbies] and occasionally on a stray blackfellow; that it inhabits the darkest and deepest parts of the river, and in some of the lakes and lagoons that longest retain water.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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This has apparently been used by them for smoke-drying a dead blackfellow.
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His name not really Toomai, he being African blackfellow.
Death Stalks The Ruins Adams, Stephen 2005
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People said he was as good as a blackfellow, but I never saw one that was as good as he was, all round.
Robbery Under Arms 2004
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He can mostly track like a blackfellow, and tell you whether the cattle or horses which he sees the tracks of are belonging to his country or are strangers.
Robbery Under Arms 2004
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I can ride anything — anything that ever was lapped in horsehide — swim like a musk-duck, and track like a Myall blackfellow.
Robbery Under Arms 2004
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And how the young villain laughed till the tears came into his eyes, while he danced about like a blackfellow.
Robbery Under Arms 2004
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If, on the other hand, the animal or reptile took shelter in a hollow part, the white blackfellow would dig him out of his retreat, if he could not haul him from thence with a forked stick.
Ralph Rashleigh 2004
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Father living in the Hollow, like a blackfellow in a cave, afraid to spend the blessed Christmas with his wife and daughter, like the poorest man in the land could do if he was only honest.
Robbery Under Arms 2004
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Gin or blackfellow, it was all the same to Warrigal.
Robbery Under Arms 2004
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