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Sundowner   Listen
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Sundowner  n.  A tramp or vagabond in the Australian bush; so called from his coming to sheep stations at sunset of ask for supper and a bed, when it is too late to work; called also traveler and swagman (but not all swagmen are sundowners). "Sundowners, men who loaf about till sunset, and then come in with the demand for unrefusable rations."





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"Sundowner" Quotes from Famous Books



... gent, mushroom, no one knows who, adventurer; man of straw. beggar, gaberlunzie^, muckworm^, mudlark^, sans culotte, raff^, tatterdemalion, caitiff, ragamuffin, Pariah, outcast of society, tramp, vagabond, bezonian^, panhandler [Slang], sundowner^, chiffonnier, Cinderella, cinderwench^, scrub, jade; gossoon^. Goth, Vandal, Hottentot, Zulu, savage, barbarian, Yahoo; unlicked cub^, rough diamond^. barbarousness, barbarism; boeotia. V. be ignoble &c ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget


Words linked to "Sundowner" :   vagabond, floater, drink, Australia, drifter, vagrant, Commonwealth of Australia, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland


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