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Definition of Jumbucks
1. jumbuck [n] - See also: jumbuck
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jumbucks
Literary usage of Jumbucks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Illustrated Magazine (1898)
"I see all this white with cotton-bush, and it shall be white with jumbucks to
eat it down. My boy, look at the salt-bush ! thick, oh ! thick and fat, ..."
2. A Boy's Adventures in the Wilds of Australia: Or, Herbert's Note-book by William Howitt (1855)
"They are jumbucks in this country." After dinner, and copious draughts of tea,
one of them pulled a brandy-bottle out of the dray, and said that they ..."
3. Chambers' Edinburgh Journal by Robert Chambers, William Chambers (1851)
"Mr Brown and myself will overtake you by mid-day—and mind you look well after
the men, as will as the jumbucks.'* Such was the conclusion of »f directions ..."
4. Australia by Jo Ellen Moore (1999)
"A jackaroo had to call his cobber to help catch some runaway jumbucks. 5.
The postie called, "Good on ya!" to that little nipper. ..."
5. The Federal Defence of Australasia by George Cathcart Craig (1897)
"... for the want of something exciting and practical, other than riding bucking
horses, herding jumbucks, cutting-out Herefords, hunting kangaroos, ..."
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