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单词 fruit cocky
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Definition of fruit cocky in English:

fruit cocky

nounPlural fruit cockies
Australian
  • A person who owns or runs a fruit farm.

    the fruit cocky hates to see pickers standing idle
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The fruit cockies are getting restless, much gnashing and grinding of teeth out there in the last week or ten days.
    • He sold 'em to the fruit cockies up around Renmark.
    • The fruit cocky arrived early to give us our jobs.
    • Not much of a living as a fruit cocky and slim pickings for the pickers.
    • There is nothing a fruit cocky hates to see as much as pickers standing idle.
    • Beyond the fruit cockies were those without property, a class of permanent orchard labourers and managers.
    • Our people, unlike the fruit cockies of whom you complain, have something other to do than spend their first year in fencing themselves off from their kind.
    • The cheerful fruit cocky limits his vision to the border hedge of his own orchard.
    • Depending on what he runs, he could be a cow cocky, a fruit cocky, a sheep cocky, or a cane cocky.

Origin

Late 19th century: from fruit + cocky3.

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