What is a wobbly in Australia?
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What is a wobbly in Australia?
To chuck a wobbly is a variant of the Standard English idiom to throw a wobbly, where wobbly means ‘a fit of temper or panic’. In Australian English chuck in the sense of ‘throw’ or ‘stage’ is used in other expressions with the same meaning, such as chuck a mental and chuck a mickey.
What does stuffed the jumbuck in his tucker bag mean?
And he sang as he shoved that jumbuck in his tucker-bag shoved – pushed, stuffed, packed. Presumably after skinning and gutting. tucker – food, hence “tucker-bag”
What is the jumbuck?
Jumbuck is an Australian word for a ‘sheep’. It is best known from Banjo Paterson’s use of it in Waltzing Matilda.
How big is a Jumbuck?
The height, measured from the ground to the top of the car is 1420mm across all variants. The width ranges from 1690mm to 1710mm. The length is 4455mm across all variants. The dimensions shown above are for the Proton Jumbuck GLi, 1.5L, ULP, 5 SP MAN .
Who owns Jumbuck Pastoral?
the MacLachlan family
Jumbuck Pastoral is owned by the MacLachlan family from South Australia, and is one of Australia’s largest sheep and cattle producers, running 12 properties across SA, the Northern Territory, Western Australia and New South Wales.
What does jolly swagman mean?
The figure of the “jolly swagman”, represented most famously in Banjo Paterson’s bush poem “Waltzing Matilda”, became a folk hero in 19th-century Australia, and is still seen today as a symbol of anti-authoritarian values that Australians considered to be part of the national character.
Why is Maud short for Matilda?
Maud or Maude (approximately pronounced “mawd” in English), is an Old German name meaning “powerful battler”. It is a variant of the given name Matilda but is uncommon as a surname. The Welsh variant of this name is Mawd. The name’s popularity in 19th-century England is associated with Alfred Tennyson’s poem Maud.
What is a jolly swagman?
What is a Jumbuk?
