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blackfellow

n. (context Australia now usually considered offensive English) A (male) Australian Aborigine. (from 19th c.)

Usage examples of "blackfellow".

His mind ran back to the strange and complicated forbidden degrees of the Australian Blackfellows, who are divided into cross-classes, each of which must necessarily marry into a certain other, and into that other only, regardless of individual tastes or preferences.

Away up the plain the horses, about thirty or forty in number, were slowly trooping into camp, hunted by a couple of blackfellows, naked except for little grass armlets worn above the elbow, and sticks stuck through their noses.

A blackfellow, loafing about the back of the hotel, was asked if he had seen a tall, thin old man with a beard going down the street.

They send a blackfellow to let me know when they want any stuff, and where to send it.

And please to remember this blackfellow behind you is also guarding me.