jackaroo
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.21 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A trainee station manager or owner, working as a stockman or farm hand; formerly, a young man of independent means working at a station in a supernumerary capacity to gain experience.
Australian usage
Example Sentences
- "But this is the tale of a Jackaroo that came from a foreign strand, / And the fight that he fought with Saltbush Bill, the King of the Overland."
- "A Jackeroo lived, as a kind of gentleman apprentice, in the squatter′s or manager′s homestead, not in the men′s huts; but most of his daily work was done side by side with the working ‘hands’."
- "Frequently the overseer would come to me and say a certain jackeroo was useless, and would never be any good, when the boy had only just started."
- "Bill has gone jackarooing out west."