(Australia, New Zealand, historical) A woman who travels around with a personal]] items.
(Australia, New Zealand, historical) A woman who travels around with a personal]] items.
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(Australia, New Zealand, historical) A man who travels around with a personal]] items; specifically, an itinerant person, often seeking work in exchange for food and lodging.
(AU, NZ) To travel on foot, carrying one's possessions.
(Britain, archaic) A person who sells or trades in trinkets or items of low value.
(AU, NZ, colloquial) A swagman.
Australian and New Zealand colloquial term for a swagman — the iconic itinerant worker of the colonial and Depression-era outback, who carried all their possessions in a swag (a bedroll) on their back as they moved from station to station seeking work. Swaggie is the affectionate diminutive, stripping the romance from the image and replacing it with something more human and a little scruffy. Immortalised in 'Waltzing Matilda,' the swaggie is a central figure in Australian folk mythology.