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Cousin Jack noun a Cornish man, especially a miner AUSTRALIA, 1863- This appreciable number of Irish did not swamp the humour of the bulk of railwaymen, “Cousin Jacks” (miners from Cornwall who flocked to the railways when the mines failed), the Welsh, English and Scots. — Patsy Adam-Smith, Folklore of the Australian Railwaymen, p. 204, 1969
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