jumbuckとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɐmbɐk/

名詞

jumbuck (複数形 jumbucks)

1. (Australia) A sheep.
   • 1855, William Howitt, A Boy's Adventures in the Wilds of Australia: or, Herbert's Note-Book, page 128:

     Allan told them all that he thought necessary ; but, as he did not know what jumbucks were, he candidly said so.
     “Why, sheep, man, sheep! They are jumbucks in this country.”

   • 1895, “Waltzing Matilda”, Banjo Paterson (lyrics)‎^[1]:

     Down came a jumbuck to drink at the billabong,
     Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee.

   • 1896, Henry Lawson, “Across the Straits”, in While the Billy Boils, Sydney, N.S.W.: Angus and Robertson […], →OCLC, page 179:

     You may rip a sheep open whilst watching for the boss's boots or yarning to a pen-mate, and then when you have stuffed the works back into the animal, and put a stitch in the slit, and poked it somewhere with a tar-stick (it doesn′t matter much where) the jumbuck will be all right and just as lively as ever, and turn up next shearing without the ghost of a scratch on its skin.

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