cocky's joy

Noun

cocky's joy (uncountable)

1. (Australia, informal) Golden syrup.
   • There are, incidentally, few things more Australian than damper with ‘cocky′s joy’, which is the bushman′s name for golden syrup.2000, Barbara Santich, In the Land of the Magic Pudding: A Gastronomic Miscellany, page 156
   • Tradition has it that their main meal in later colonial times consisted chiefly of salt meat, potatoes and pumpkin stewed in a camp oven all day,¹³⁹ with damper and golden syrup (cocky′s joy) for pudding, and no fruit at all. Tasmanian jam was available from the 1860s onwards, but it was up to four...2007, Ted Henzell, Australian Agriculture: Its History and Challenges, page 246