Dictionary

blackfeller en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio

Etymology

From black + feller.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of blackfellow
   alt of blackfellow
   • 2009, Alf Barlow, The Two Rainbow Serpents, in Jeremy Beckett, Luise Hercus, The Two Rainbow Serpents Travelling: Mura Track Narratives from the ‘Corner Country’, page 30, They reckoned they saw a big blackfeller camp on one side. They made the creek deeper. They named the place ‘Gumbagunbara (blackfeller)’.
   • You see we were only like ordinary blackfellers. We didn′t know anything. 1992, Bruce Shaw, editor, When the Dust Come in Between: Aboriginal Viewpoints in the East Kimberley Prior to 1982, page 100:
   • The whitefellers′ Law said it was a wrong thing to get a blackfeller to leave his district and go elsewhere, so Clancy and his mates were gaoled ... 2007, Noel Olive, Enough is Enough: A History of the Pilbara Mob, page 143:

Forms