Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sheep.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sheep.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Australia A
sheep .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And he sang as he stowed that jumbuck in his tucker bag
Someday my prints will come… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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And he sang as he stowed that jumbuck in his tucker bag
Someday my prints will come… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Once a jolly jumbuck camped by a billabong under the shade of a swaggie it seems and he sang and he watched while Conzinc mined uranium
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He saw the slots of jumbuck, and, with a stir of anxiety, the recent pugmarks of a fanged leopard.
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As a coin, a half-crown. jackaroo: (Jack + kangaroo; sometimes jackeroo) -- someone, in early days a new immigrant from England, learning to work on a sheep/cattle station (U.S. "ranch".) jim-jams: the horrors, d. t.'s jumbuck: a sheep (best known from Waltzing Matilda: "where's that jolly jumbuck, you've got in your tucker bag".) larrikin: anything from a disrespectful young man to a violent member of a gang ( "push").
Children of the Bush Henry Lawson 1894
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Somewhere between the jolly swagman and jumbuck, he breaks off.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2010
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A jumbuck is known all over the world but only by it's English name and a tucker bag defies understanding by young folk even though they may know what 'tucker' is.
magic-city-news.com 2010
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He was crossing the country with his mathilda (bedroll) on his shoulders and killed a jumbuck (sheep)
Recently Uploaded Slideshows rivella49 2010
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He was crossing the country with his mathilda (bedroll) on his shoulders and killed a jumbuck (sheep)
Recently Uploaded Slideshows rivella49 2010
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Down came a jumbuck to drink beside the billabong Up jumped the swagman and seized him with glee And he sang as he tucked to the jumbuck in his tucker-bag You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda
chained_bear commented on the word jumbuck
A sheep. The term is a corruption of ‘jump up’ (Macquarie Dictionary, 3rd rev. ed. Sydney: Macquarie, 2001). Cited on the National Library of Australia website, http://www.nla.gov.au/epubs/waltzingmatilda
Down came a jumbuck to drink at the billabong.
Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee...
--A.B. Paterson, "Waltzing Matilda"
February 7, 2007
bilby commented on the word jumbuck
If the etymology is to be believed, there's far too much jumping going on in that song. I haven't seen the flock this nervous since sionnach bought a new freezer.
March 10, 2010