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Apart from bush terms, there are town appellations, such as 'larrikin, which means a 'rough. The word is said to have originated with an Irish policeman, who spoke of some boys who had been brought before the Melbourne Police Court as 'larriking around, instead of 'larking. To 'have a nip' is to take a 'nobbler. A white man born in Australia is a 'colonial, vulgarly a 'gum-sucker; if he was born in New South Wales, he is also a 'cornstalk. An aboriginal is always a 'black fellow. A native of Australia would mean a white man born in the colony.
But such a young 'gum-sucker' must not be confounded with the ordinary middle-class Englishmen who form the majority of the professional and business men one comes in contact with in the present day. The native Australian element is still altogether in the minority in everyday life, and the majority of adults are English-born colonists.
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