swagman
- noun
- Archaic
- The swagman walked many miles carrying his belongings in a bundle, searching for work in the outback.
Examples
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There once was a swagman camped by a billabong Under the shade of the coolibah tree
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# You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me # Down came a jumbuck to drink by the billabong # Up jumped a swagman and grabbed him with glee...
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- # Once a jolly swagman # -
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Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee
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Up jumped the swagman And grabbed him with glee
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Baby always got up real oily for her job cutting meat at Swagman Giant Supermarket.
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Up jumped the swagman Sprang into that billabong
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Once a jolly swagman
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# # Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong # # Under the shade of a coolibah tree
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Billy's intervention is the correspondence made by his own swagman in the negative commercial high-wheel waltzing Matilda.
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Synonyms
A woman who travels to find work while carrying her belongings in a bundle
A person who travels through the countryside carrying their things in a bag while looking for work
A person who travels widely and energetically to search for something
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Swagman is made of swag and man. A swag was a traveler's 'bundle' or 'bed-roll' with all his things. So a swagman is a man who walked from place to place carrying his bundle and looking for work, like the figure in the Australian song 'Waltzing Matilda'.