10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COW COCKIES»
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cow cockies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
cow cockies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A Personal Kiwi-Yankee Dictionary
These come in several varieties: cow cockies (ranchers) tend to be the only ones
who rate a modifier to the cocky, but there are also men who you could describe
as sheep cockies, dairying cockies, horticultural cockies and mixed cockies.
2
The Bibliography of Australian Literature: P-Z
... and Other Stories, 309 Cousins-Come-Lately, 92 Covered for Death, 35 Covey
of Partridge, 21 'Cow Cockies Lament' and Other Bits of Wicked Wit, 75 Cow
Cockies' Holiday, 735 Cowardice before Courage, 12 Cowardly Fawn, 83
Cowboy, ...
John Arnold, John Hay, 2009
'That's what local people call farmers oot here laddie – Cockies, short for Cow
Cockies.' They followed him for another couple of blocks before coming to a halt
in a street filled with small, timber cottages, high stumps supporting them.
4
Australian Language and Culture
... scratches in the dirt to find food. They come in various flavours: cane cockies (
sugarcane farmers), cow cockies (dairy farmers) and wheat cockies (wheat
farmers). graziers station-owners who run sheeporcattle.Thegrazier is likely to be
part.
5
Mudeye: An Australian Boyhood and Beyond
Standing beside the car on a soft, brown carpet of cypress needles, the farmer is
specifically himself but typically represents the spud-and-cow cockies shaped by
hard lives, showing anxiety for the sick beast and lost production, anxiety, too, ...
... stoppin em coppers from givin some a at ere bullshit evidence agenst me, all at
stuff they tried to tell the jury, but youse fellas stopped em, an splainin it all ta em
cow cockies an theyse dopey missuses with blue air in the jury box, ya know, ...
7
The Resurrection of Philip Clairmont
When a couple of Takaka cow-cockies, brothers, offered her work as their
housekeeper, and said they would take the kids in as well, she accepted. She
stayed on their farm for the rest of that year, 1954. She was plucked out of this
situation by ...
There were water troughs and bores scattered over these grazing properties, and
some improved pastures patch worked through the scrub, creating a perfect
environment for the kangaroos. The 'Cow-Cockies' as Dad called the graziers,
were ...
9
The Land I Came Through Last
... among us, nor work to be had: we saw few tourists then, and there were adults
who were unemployed. People in the towns looked down upon the 'cow cockies'
on dairy farms who 'put their kids to work'. My mother was of 175 a JungLe boy.
10
Kel Richards' Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
... flocks of these birds, they were jokingly called cockatoo farmers– meaning
thatthey appeared to be raising more cockatoos than anything else. This was
later shortened to 'cocky', so that westilltalk about small farmers as cow cockies.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COW COCKIES»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
cow cockies is used in the context of the following news items.
Qantas offshoot Jetstar expands in New Zealand
... to announce the airline's no-frills offshoot Jetstar was spreading its wings to carry cow cockies, fruit pickers and shearers to the regions. «Sydney Morning Herald, Jun 15»
Editorial: Dairy woes still a worry
There probably weren't too many dairy farmers at the Rotorua Chamber of Commerce's lunch yesterday. Chances are the local cow cockies ... «New Zealand Herald, Jun 15»
API share price. Source: TheAustralian
Given the farm sector is highly fragmented, it should be a no-brainer to acquire acreages from the tiring early-rising cow cockies, whose ... «The Australian, Apr 15»
Video Live Updates: Chiefs vs Blues - Super Rugby
In this professional day and age, it won't be the cow cockies against the townies in Hamilton this weekend, but the rivalry forged at provincial ... «3News NZ, Apr 15»
Newcomer Australian Dairy Farms Group looks to milk rising prices
But investors are really punting on capital growth as the company hoovers up farms from ageing cow cockies. Spec buy. Having said that, we ... «The Australian, Oct 14»
Liam Dann: How serious is the dairy price slump?
When i was child wool was "King" and the sheep cockies looked down on the cow cockies with distain. Now milk rules but it won't for ever so ... «New Zealand Herald, Jun 14»
Abbott's drought relief: back to the age of entitlement for farmers
In the early 1970s my maternal grandfather gave me his opinion of “cow cockies”. It was to the effect that during good times they would drive ... «Crikey, Feb 14»
Dam plan sparks fears
... Dr Alistair Humphrey rounded on cow cockies, warning that nitrates can cause potentially fatal blue baby syndrome (methaemaglobinaemia). «New Zealand Herald, Nov 13»
NZ's water supply should be valued
OPINION: ''Bloody cow cockies" is the natural townie reaction to headlines regarding rising nitrate levels in drinking water. But, in reality, the ... «Stuff.co.nz, Oct 13»
Creaming it
So yes, our cow cockies are doing very well. The high demand for our exports is also the main contributor to exchange-rate strength. Our dollar ... «New Zealand Listener, Mar 13»
