Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

blackfeller

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: black-feller
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of blackfellow

Example Sentences

"You see we were only like ordinary blackfellers. We didn′t know anything."
"The whitefellers′ Law said it was a wrong thing to get a blackfeller to leave his district and go elsewhere, so Clancy and his mates were gaoled ..."
"2009, Alf Barlow, The Two Rainbow Serpents, in Jeremy Beckett, Luise Hercus, The Two Rainbow Serpents Travelling: Mura Track Narratives from the ‘Corner Country’, page 30, They reckoned they saw a big blackfeller camp on one side. They made the creek deeper. They named the place ‘Gumbagunbara (blackfeller)’."

Etymology

From black + feller.

Inflected Forms

blackfellers (plural)

Questions

What does blackfeller mean?: Alternative form of blackfellow
Where does blackfeller come from?: From black + feller.

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