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单词 sheep cocky
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Definition of sheep cocky in English:

sheep cocky

noun
Australian, NZ informal

  • A small-scale sheep farmer.

    there's no money in wool — most of the sheep cockies have gone into cotton
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He was a surprisingly somnolent sheep cocky.
    • He was a retired sheep-cocky wary of anything not to do with farming.
    • He was wearing a sheep-cocky's wide-brimmed hat.
    • Dad was a sheep cocky, so I'm a sheep cocky.
    • They were the woolgrowers, the runholders, the sheep-cockies, the back-countrymen.
    • I reckon you're about to find out how miserable sheep cockies are.
    • We'd been brought up as sheep cockies, and the first thing we learned was to despise goats.
    • This old sheep cocky and his missus had been walking along the top of a sandbank.
    • These poor sheep cockies, whose fear was not the loss of faith but the loss of farms and fleeces.
    • He'd call in to talk grain with a few of the sheep cockies.

Origin

Late 19th century: from sheep + cocky2 (from the Australian sense of cockatoo 'a small-scale farmer').
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