swagman
Australian itinerant laborer
A swagman is an itinerant worker or vagrant who travels on foot carrying a bedroll and belongings—a swag—typically seeking seasonal work.
The term belongs to Australian and New Zealand English and evokes the colonial and frontier eras: Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong.
Also called a swaggie.
Multi-stemmed woody plant
- billyCamp cooking pot
- campfireOutdoor fire for gathering
- stationFixed stopping point
- droverOne who moves livestock
stockman · jackaroo · squatter · shearer · sundowner · overlander · selector · bushman
Female name, strength-in-combat meaning
- waltzingDancing in 3/4 time
- billabongIsolated river pool
- billyCamp cooking pot
- bushrangerAustralian colonial outlaw
yarn · ballad · legend · tale · lore · ditty · verse · refrain
Moving for work
- drifterAimless, rootless traveler
- wandererRootless, roving person
- travellerOne who journeys
- roverDrifter or space explorer
wayfarer · rambler · vagabond · transient · migrant · footloose · rootless · roaming
Severe lack of resources
- destitutionExtreme poverty, lacking necessities
- homelessWithout a dwelling
- vagrantHomeless itinerant person
- trampWandering homeless person
hobo · down-and-out · battler · sleeping rough · campfire · makeshift · unemployment · dispossessed
Cutting away fleece
- drovingLong-distance livestock walking
- fencingCombat with blunted blades
- musteringGathering or summoning
- harvestingGathering mature crops
seasonal work · odd jobs · farmhand · toil · labourer · hired hand · itinerant worker · manual work
bush
Multi-stemmed woody plant
drover · stockman · jackaroo · squatter · shearer · sundowner · overlander · selector · bushman · eucalyptus
Matilda
Female name, strength-in-combat meaning
bushranger · yarn · ballad · legend · tale · lore · ditty · verse · refrain · melody
itinerant
Moving for work
rover · wayfarer · rambler · vagabond · transient · migrant · footloose · rootless · roaming · tramping
poverty
Severe lack of resources
- destitutionExtreme poverty, lacking necessities
- homelessWithout a dwelling
- vagrantHomeless itinerant person
tramp · hobo · down-and-out · battler · sleeping rough · campfire · makeshift · unemployment · dispossessed · drifting
shearing
Cutting away fleece
- drovingLong-distance livestock walking
- fencingCombat with blunted blades
- musteringGathering or summoning
harvesting · seasonal work · odd jobs · farmhand · toil · labourer · hired hand · itinerant worker · manual work · sheepshearing
- Australasiakangaroo, koala, Sydney, Melbourne, outback
- Outbackoutback, station, red sand, cattle station, dust storm
- Australianakangaroo, Vegemite, boomerang, koala, didgeridoo
- AustraliansHugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett, Russell Crowe, Margot Robbie
- troublemakerstroublemaker, rascals, delinquents, imps, brats
- Outback Jobsdrover, stockman, jackaroo, ringer, musterer
swagmansettler
One who colonizes territory
homesteader · landowner · resident · householder · homebody
swagmansquatter
Unauthorized building inhabitant
pastoralist · grazier · landowner · landed gentry · boss
swagmansquatter
Unauthorized building inhabitant
gentleman · pillar of the community · burgher · solid citizen