swagger

Example Sentences

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Just at this time two swaggies, who had come up the Range, banged at the door.

From From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush by Bryde, Charles W. L.

You can put on your rig and appear as a stranger looking round, while I'll put on my bush rig and go amongst the swaggies and loafers in the bars.

From Australia Revenged by Boomerang, pseud.

I thought a damp expression seemed to pass across her face when me and my mate sat down, but she served us and said nothing—we was only two dusty swaggies, you see.

From While the Billy Boils by Lawson, Henry

Never a night but we have the house full of agents or travellers of one sort or another, and there are often a dozen swaggies in the one day.

From My Brilliant Career by Franklin, Miles