patriot

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

n.


Humorously applied to convicts.

1796. In `History of Australia,' by G. W. Rusden (1894),p. 49 [Footnote]:

«In 1796 the Prologue (erroneously imputed to a convictBarrington, but believed to have been written by an officer)declared:

`True patriots we, for be it understood

We left our country for our country's good.'»

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