cockying

Verb

cocky (third-person singular simple present cockies, present participle cockying, simple past and past participle cockied)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, historical, informal, intransitive) To operate a small-scale farm.
   • But if we are bigger built than you blokes, I suppose it's 'coz we—most of us—live away from big cities, and everybody goes in for sport an' all that; plenty of ridin' an' walkin' an' swimmin' and football an' hard work. Most of us are off the land, cockeying, and the blokes who come from the...1919, C. Hampton Thorp, “About Various Things”, in A Handful of Ausseys, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head; New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, →OCLC, page 116

   Synonyms:

   cockatoo

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