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bastard from the bush
noun
a person from the country who comes to the city and behaves in an unmannerly way AUSTRALIA
From a bawdy ballad so titled, based on the poem “The Captain of the Push” (1892) by Henry Lawson.- Then the stranger made this answer to the Captain of the Push, “Why, fuck you dead, I’m Foreskin Fred, the bastard from the bush. I’ve been in every two-up school from Darwin to the ‘Loo, I’ve ridden colts and black gins–what more can a bastard do.” — S. Hogbotel and S. Fuckes, Snatches and Lays, p. 82, 1962
- — Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, 1966
- “It’s you’re the bastard.” Again that neigh: “The Bastard from the Bush. Get back where you belong!” — Xavier Herbert, Poor Fellow My Country, p. 1079, 1975
- The bastard from the bush is one of life’s great swine and, because of this, tolerated with great affection by Australian males. — Richard Beckett, The Dinkum Aussie Dictionary, p. 7, 1986
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