swagmen
Australian itinerant workers
Swagmen is the plural of swagman, an Australian term for an itinerant worker or drifter who travels the bush carrying his belongings in a rolled bundle called a swag.
The figure is iconic in Australian culture, immortalized in "Waltzing Matilda": Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong.
The term evokes a bygone era of rural wandering.
Itinerant without fixed address
- vagabondHomeless, aimless wanderer
- wandererRootless, roving person
- trampWandering homeless person
- vagrantHomeless itinerant person
rover · drifter · wayfarer · rambler · transient · migrant · sundowner · footloose
Without a job
- itinerantMoving for work
- homelessWithout a dwelling
- povertySevere lack of resources
- drifterAimless, rootless traveler
dispossessed · traveller · roadside · charity · handout · sundowner · survival · labour
hobo
Itinerant without fixed address
vagrant · rover · drifter · wayfarer · rambler · transient · migrant · sundowner · footloose · peripatetic
unemployed
Without a job
drifter · dispossessed · traveller · roadside · charity · handout · sundowner · survival · labour · seasonal
bush
Multi-stemmed woody plant
stockman · droving · station · jackaroo · spinifex · outstation · shearing · squatter · woolshed · drover
waltzing
Dancing in 3/4 time
folksong · ballad · song · tune · refrain · ditty · melody · narrative · minstrel · colonial
swagmensettlers
Those who establish homes
homesteaders · landowners · residents · householders · homeowners
swagmensquatters
Unauthorized occupants of property
pastoralists · graziers · landed gentry · landholders · employers