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swagman
A swagman (also called a swaggie, sundowner or tussocker) is an old Australian〔Brian Galligan and Winsome Roberts (2004). ''Australian citizenship'', p. 108. Melbourne Univ. Publishing. ISBN 978-0-522-85094-9.〕 and New Zealand〔Carl Walrond. (Rural workers - On the road ), ''Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand''. New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage, Wellington. ISBN 978-0-478-18451-8. Updated 23 November 2009.〕 term describing an underclass of transient temporary workers, who travelled by foot from farm to farm carrying the traditional swag (bedroll).
Particularly during the Depression of the 1890s and the Great Depression of the 1930s, unemployed men travelled the rural areas of Australia on foot, their few meagre possessions rolled up and carried in their swag. Typically, they would seek work in farms and towns they travelled through, and in many cases the farmers, if no permanent work was available, would provide food and shelter in return for some menial task.
==Etymology==
In the early 1800s, the term ''swag'' was used by British thieves to describe any amount of stolen goods. One definition given in Francis Grose's 1811 ''Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue'' is "any booty you have lately obtained,.... To carry the swag is to be the bearer of the stolen goods to a place of safety."〔Grose, Francis; Egan, Pierce (1923). ''Grose's Classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue: revised and corrected, with the addition of numerous slang phrases, collected from tried authorities''. London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones.〕 James Hardy Vaux, a convict in Australia, used the term for similar purposes in his memoirs written in 1812 and published in 1819.〔Vaux, Hardy James; Field, Barron (1819). "Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux, Volumes 1-2". Printed by W. Clowes. p. 216〕 By the 1830s, the term in Australia had transferred from meaning goods acquired by a thief to the possessions and daily necessaries carried by a bushman. The compound ''swagman'' and colloquial variation ''swaggie'' first appeared in the 1850s during the Australian gold rushes, alongside less common terms such as ''bundleman''.〔Leitner, Gerhard (2004). ''Australia's many voices: Australian English--the national language''. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 3-11-018194-0, p. 218〕 New Zealanders adopted the term in the 1880s, where swagmen were also known as ''swaggers''.〔Collins, Peter; Peters, Pam; Smith, Adam (2009). ''Comparative studies in Australian and New Zealand English: grammar and beyond''. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISBN 90-272-4899-0, pg. 52〕 ''Swagger'' also originated in Australia, but became obsolete there by the 1890s.〔
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