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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.
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