dungaree-settler

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

n.


Now obsolete. See quotation.

1852. Anon, `Settlers and Convicts; or, Recollections ofSixteen Years' Labour in the Australian Backwoods,' p. 11:

«The poor Australian settler (or, according to colonistphraseology, the Dungaree-settler; so called from theirfrequently clothing themselves, their wives, and childrenin that blue Indian manufacture of cotton known as Dungaree) sells his wheat crop.»

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