NOUN
- an itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work
How To Use swaggie In A Sentence
- No more would the swaggies need to walk as the crow flies as the Princes Highway was opened, linking Sydney to Adelaide via Melbourne.
- Since the 1880s, the national culture has celebrated the underdog - the Eureka gold miners, sheep stealing swaggies, renegade bushrangers, and striking shearers.
- The swaggies always look away, or down; their hats are visors, and he never sees the colour of a swaggie's eyes.
- Once a jolly jumbuck camped by a billabong under the shade of a swaggie it seems and he sang and he watched while Conzinc mined uranium John Howard's glowing futures
- She married Arthur Woods in 1929 and became renowned for feeding passing swaggies, who left marks on her gate to indicate this was the place for a good feed.
- Where explorers died of thirst we now drive, where diggers and swaggies fossicked and hid from the law, we now drive.
- The swaggie was last seen heading off up George Street complete with swag looking for a place to stay the night.
- Bert was in charge of a few scraggly swaggies who were working for their keep.