blackfellow
/ˈblakfɛləʊ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- ""Me like my country — no much too hot, no much too cold. By and bye, white fellow come — soldier-man come. White fellow say, this our land, that our land — ALL country our land. Black fellow say no! my country no white fellow's country, and black fellow take spear."
- "He was squatting on the ground like a blackfellow, quiet and still and cunning."
- "It was as if the blackfellas were their property, and the Board could do with them as they saw fit."
- "A blackfella and a whitefella are sitting at the bar. The whitefella says to the blackfella eh boss, whadya reckon? The blackfella says since you ask, I consider it a metaphor of the historic case of the Coorong massacre of 1840."
- "Most police officers had no blackfella cultural background, no knowledge of Aboriginal priorities in life, yet they were the power in the town."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *blakaz Proto-West Germanic *blak Old English blæc Middle English blak English black English fellow English blackfellow From black + fellow.
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈblakfɛləʊ/