Meaning & use
Cockies
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Cockatoos, or, in informal Australian usage, small-scale farmers.
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A flock of cockies screeched from the gum trees at dawn.
The old cockies in the district still remembered the drought of the 1980s.
A note on using this word
"Cocky" as slang for a farmer likely comes from "cockatoo farmer," an old Australian term for a small landholder who, like a cockatoo, seemed to peck at the land rather than farm it seriously.
Words with a similar meaning
cockatoos
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Another way to use it
2. noun
Informal Australian term for a farmer, especially a small-scale one.
His grandfather was a wheat cocky out west.
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