Blackboy Definition

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1906, South Australian Geology Department, Henry Yorke Lyell Brown, Robert Etheridge, Reports (geological and general) resulting from the explorations made by the government geologist and staff during 1905, page 36,
September 30th, 1905.—Examined some hills in the locality. A Chinaman and some blackboys are camped here with some cattle belonging to the Mount Diamond butcher.
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1930, Mary Montgomerie Bennett, The Australian Aboriginal as a Human Being, page 49,
His tracks joined a cattle pad, and the blackboys followed them at speed, two riding on each side of the path.
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(Australia, informal) Any plant in the genus Xanthorrhoea, native to Australia.

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Other Word Forms of Blackboy

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Singular:
blackboy
Plural:
blackboys

Origin of Blackboy

  • From black +‎ boy. For sense (plant of genus Xanthorrhoea): from a supposed resemblance of the plant to an Aboriginal boy holding an upright spear.

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