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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
bluey. *. In mid-C.19–20 c., lead: ex BLUE PIOEON. 2. A bushman's, esp. a
sundowner's, bundle, usually wrapped in a blue blanket: Australian (–1888). Esp.
in hump bluey, to go on the tramp (–1890). cf. SWAG, n., 5. 3. In Tasmania, a ...
... not five miles from Gundagai; Chorus: And we tramped, &c. "Humped our blues
serenely."—To hump bluey is to carry one's swag, and the name bluey comes
from the blue blankets. To "Shoulder Matilda" is the same thing as to "hump bluey
.
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Kangaroo's Comments and Wallaby's Words: The Aussie Word Book
To hump bluey means to sling a bedroll across your back. The swag or bluey
also went by a more affectionate name — Matilda — the lady he waltzed with
throughout his dusty travels. To lead such a life was to swag it! A sundowner was
the ...
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
2. A summons: Aus. and NZ c., a familiarisation of blue, n., 9. Vince Kelly, The
Greedy Ones, 1958.-3. A bushman's, esp. a sundowner's, bundle, usually
wrapped in a blue blanket: Aus. (—1888); in C20, coll. Esp. in hump bluey, in C.
20 often ...
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Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases ...
2: “We shall have to hump bluey again.” I891. R. Wallace, ' Rural Economy and
Agriculture of Australia and New Zealand,' . 73 : P “'l-lumping bluey' is for a
workman to walk in search of work.” I891. W. Tilley, 'The Wild West of Tasmania,'
p.
Edward Ellis Morris, 2011
Hump, To: Popularly, to carry as a swag (qv) or other burden. Henry Lawson
denies that the term was widely used, and writes: “You do not 'hump bluey' – you
simply 'carry your swag' ('Some Popular Australian Mistakes', The Bulletin, 1893).
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The Lingo: Listening to Australian English
... Lawson, who would have known, was at pains to point out in 1893 that this
term was unusual: 'A swag is not generally referred to as a "bluey" or "Matilda" —
it is called a "swag"' and 'You do not "hump bluey" — you simply carry your swag.
... m%\m-, ia#; mm bluey (Australian) a bushman's esp. a sundowner's, bundle,
usu. wrapped in a blue blanket, as in hump bluey, or hump one's bluey, to go on
tramp AitfifffljES M&&tf), hump bluey & hump one's bluey, fePMft bo-peep (
rhyming ...
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A waltz with Matilda: on the trail of a song
To the ballad called "On the Road to Gundagai" which Paterson included in his
collection of Old Bush Songs, (my copy is the third edition of 1912), he has a
footnote: "Humped our blues serenely" — To hump bluey is to carry one's swag
and ...
Oscar Adolf Mendelsohn, 1966
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Odd Job Man: Some Confessions of a Slang Lexicographer
Youdonot 'hump bluey'– you simply carryyourswag.' 'Swag'itself descendsfrom
fourteenth century English, meaning a bulgybag. My friend Professor
MichaelAdams, who has written anentire bookon the language of Buffy the
Vampire Slayer, ...
