blackfellow

plural blackfellows · alternative blackfella · alternative blackfellah · alternative blackfeller · alternative black fellow · alternative blackfulla

1. Australiaethnicslurnow usually considered offensiveAn Australian Aboriginal, especially a male one.First known use 19th c.

   He was squatting on the ground like a blackfellow, quiet and still and cunning.

   1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber & Faber, published 2003, page 40

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   "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.

   1842 February 16, The Inquirer, Perth, page 5, column 2

   It was as if the blackfellas were their property, and the Board could do with them as they saw fit.

   2000, Daryl Tonkin, Carolyn Landon, Jackson's Track: Memoir of a Dreamtime Place, page 256

   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.

   2002, James Roberts, “At the Bar”, in Rebekah Clarkson, editor, Forked Tongues: A Delicious Anthology of Poetry and Prose, page 29

   Most police officers had no blackfella cultural background, no knowledge of Aboriginal priorities in life, yet they were the power in the town.

   2007, Noel Olive, Enough is Enough: A History of the Pilbara Mob, page 212