Noun

(wikipedia yakka) (-)

(Australia) Work.

* 1986 , , Volume 30, page 42,

The demand for work and abortion shows that feminists have been coopted by the wimps, whose ideal is the single mother yoked to tough yakka ; for it frees them to drift between bedrooms and bathhouses.

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Noun

(en noun)

An Aboriginal boy or servant''.

* 1898 , Guy Boothby, Billy Binks—Hero'', republished in Ken Gelder, Rachael Weaver, ''The Anthology of Colonial Australian Adventure Fiction , page 118,

A moment later he beckoned the blackboy to his side, and when he arrived pointed to the ground. The boy gesticulated in answer, and then both pulled their horses to a standstill and waited for me to come up.

* 1906 , South Australian Geology Department, Henry Yorke Lyell Brown, Robert Etheridge, Reports (geological and general) resulting from the explorations made by the government geologist and staff during 1905 , page 36,

September 30th, 1905 .—Examined some hills in the locality. A Chinaman and some blackboys are camped here with some cattle belonging to the Mount Diamond butcher.

* 1930 , Mary Montgomerie Bennett, The Australian Aboriginal as a Human Being , page 49,

His tracks joined a cattle pad, and the blackboys followed them at speed, two riding on each side of the path.

(Australian, informal) Any plant in the genus Xanthorrhoea , native to Australia.

* 1946 , , Volume 13, page 49,

As with many things, the pioneers followed the natives in the use of the Blackboy . They also found that the gum possessed some property that will cure dysentery and other internal complaints. The gum was also used for dyeing, tanning and varnishing.

* 1966 November 8, (Parliament of Western Australia), Parliamentary Debates , page 2181,

The gum from the blackboy trees was used for the making of varnish and stain,

* 1977 , Royal Society of Western Australia, Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia , Volumes 60-61, page 5,

As with any fire, blackboys and sedges were the first to grow, little else appearing before the first rains, which were followed by a flush of herbaceous shoots.