different between bushie vs cocky

English

Alternative forms

• bushy

Etymology

From bush +? -ie.

Pronunciation

• (General Australian, UK) IPA^(key): /?b??i/

Noun

bushie (plural bushies)

1. (Australia, colloquial) Someone who lives in or is familiar with the Australian outback; a bushman or bushwoman.
   • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 184:

     I bought the king parrot from an old bushie in a pub in Exhibition Street.

   • 1998, David Malouf, A First Place, Vintage 2015, p. 179:

     Timber was a sign of poverty, of our poor-white condition and backwardness: it made ‘bushies’ of us.

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?k?ki/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?ki/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?k?ki/
• Rhymes: -?ki

Etymology 1

From cock (“male domestic chicken”) +? -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense of ‘having the quality of’).

Adjective

cocky (comparative cockier, superlative cockiest)

1. Overly confident; arrogant and boastful.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:arrogant

Alternative forms

• cockey
• cockie (rare)

Translations

Etymology 2

From cock (“male domestic chicken”) +? -y (diminutive suffix).

Noun

cocky (plural cockies)

1. (chiefly Britain, Ireland, colloquial, dated) Used as a term of endearment, originally for a person of either sex, but later primarily for a man.

Alternative forms

• cockey
• cockie

Translations

Etymology 3

The noun is derived from cock(atoo) +? -y (diminutive suffix). The verb is derived from the noun.

Noun

cocky (plural cockies) (chiefly Australia, New Zealand, informal)

1. A (familiar name for a) cockatoo.
2. (also attributively) Short for cockatoo farmer (“small-scale farmer”); (by extension) any farmer or owner of rural land.

   Synonyms: cockatoo, crofter

Usage notes

In New Zealand, cocky (sense 2) is often synonymous with sheep cocky (“a sheep farmer”), due to the relative importance of the industry.

Alternative forms

• cockey
• cockie

Derived terms

Verb

cocky (third-person singular simple present cockies, present participle cockying, simple past and past participle cockied)

1. (intransitive, chiefly Australia, informal, historical) To operate a small-scale farm.

   Synonym: cockatoo

Alternative forms

• cockey

Translations

References