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jilleroo

jilleroo is the alternative spelling of jillaroo.

Meaning of jillaroo

Noun

jillaroo (plural jillaroos)

  1. (Australia) A female jackaroo, a woman who does the job of a jackaroo.
    • She left school at thirteen-years-of-age to work with her father as a jillaroo: building fences, mustering cattle, and working at various jobs on stations throughout Queensland and New South Wales.2001, Vivienne Cleven, Bitin′ Back, author biography, title page

Forms of jilleroo

pluraljilleroos

Questions about jilleroo

What is jilleroo the alternative spelling of?
Jilleroo is the alternative spelling of jillaroo.

Words near jilleroo in the dictionary

  1. jillaroo
  2. jillarooing
  3. jillaroos
  4. jilled
  5. jilled off
  6. jilleroo
  7. jilleroos
  8. jillet
  9. jillets
  10. Jillette
  11. Jillettes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jilleroo (page history and authors); jillaroo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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