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Afghan
noun
any Afghan, Pakistani or other central Asian who immigrated to Australia in the C19 to work as camel-drivers in desert regions AUSTRALIA, 1869
Formerly generally regarded with suspicion and contempt by white Australians, which accounts for the fossilisation of the term in various derogatory phrases; the occupation has long since disappeared.- You might have thought, if a Royal Oak supporter, that his brown-skinned close-shaven head justified Darky’s contention that he had a head on him like an Afghan camel-driver[.] — Frank Hardy, Legend’s from Benson’s Valley, p. 62, 1963
- Any way, not a bad place, is it? Smells a bit like an Afghan’s armpit – but the beer goes down well! — Barry Humphries, The Wonderful World of Barry McKenzie, p. 32, 1968
- The pub across the road shuts at six o’clock – and I’m thirsty enough to drink a whisky through an Afghan camel-driver’s jockstrap. — Frank Hardy, Hardy’s People, p. 150, 1986
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