(Australia, derogatory, obsolete) A small-scale farmer.
(Australia, derogatory, obsolete) A small-scale farmer.
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(Australia, NZ, informal) A small-scale dairy farmer.
(slang, obsolete) A lookout posted during a two-up game, when gambling was illegal.
(Australia, informal) A potato farmer.
Australian informal slang for a potato farmer, combining 'spud' (potato) with 'cocky' — the Australian term for a small-scale farmer, derived from 'cockatoo farmer'. A spud cocky is someone who scratches a living from the earth growing potatoes, often in rural Victoria or South Australia. The phrase has a good-natured roughness typical of Australian rural vernacular — nobody says it with contempt, it's just the kind of cheerfully blunt descriptor the bush produces.