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.
His family has been spud cocky for three generations, farming the same patch of red soil in the Kimberley.
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(Australia, informal) A potato farmer.
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