Part 53 (1/2)

”It may possibly have been a term of reproach applied to the industrious farmer, who settled or perched on the resue and disgust that he contemptuously likened the farmer to the white-coated, yellow-crested screae of his naazine,' Jan, p 33:

”`With a cockatoo' [title] cockatoo is the naiven to the small, bush farht,' c xliii p 377:

”The governor is a bigoted agriculturist; he has contracted the cockatoo cous,' June 17, p 13, col 4:

”Hire yourself out to a dairyn articles with a cockatoo selector; but don't touch land without knowing so about it”

<hw>cockatoo</hw>, v intr (1) To be a farmer

1890 Rolf Boldrewood, `Squatter's Dream,' c xx p 245:

”Fancy three hundred acres in Oxfordshi+re, with a score or two of bullocks,and twice as ”

(2) A special sense--to sit on a fence as the bird sits

1890 Rolf Boldrewood, `A Colonial Refor, on first arriving at a drafting-yard, is to `cockatoo,' or sit on the rails high above the tossing horn-billows”

<hw>cockatooer</hw>, n a variant of cockatoo (qv), quite fallen into disuse, if quotation be not a nonce use

1852 Mrs Meredith, `My Home in Tas huts and hovels, the dwellings of `cockatooers,' who are not, as it s; who rent portions of this foreston exorbitant termsand vainly endeavour to exist on what they can earn besides, their frequent compulsory abstinence from meat, when they cannot afford to buy it, even in their land of cheap and abundant food, giving the white cockatoos”

<hw>cockatoo Fence</hw>, n fence erected by small farmers

1884 Rolf Boldrewood, `Melbourne Memories,' c xxii p 155:

”There would be roads and cockatoo fencesin short, all the hostile ericultural settlement”

1890 Lyth, `Golden South,' c xiv p 120:

”The fields were divided by open rails or cockatoo fences, ie

branches and logs of trees laid on the ground one across the other with posts and slip-rails in lieu of gates”

<hw>cockatoo Bush</hw>, n iq Native Currant (qv)

<hw>cockatoo Orchis</hw>, n a Tasmanian name for the Orchid, Caleya major, R Br

<hw>cock-eyed Bob</hw>, a local slang tere,' Jan 20, p 13, col 4:

”They [the natives of the northwest of Western Australia] are extrehtened of them [sc storms called willy willy, qv], and in some places even on the approach of an ordinary thunderstorround about”

<hw>cockle</hw>, n In England the naiven to a species of the familiar marine bivalve mollusc, Cardium