or bullock-puncher, bullocky, subs. phr. (colonial).—A bullock-driver; a COW-PUNCHER (q.v.). BULLOCKY, adj. = thickset; bovine.

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  1872.  C. H. EDEN, My Wife and I in Queensland, 49. The BULLPUNCHER, as bullock-drivers are familiarly called.

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  1873.  J. MATHEW, Hawking, in Queenslander, Oct. 4.

        The stockmen, and the bushmen, and the shepherds leave the station,
And the hardy BULLOCK-PUNCHERS throw aside their occupation.

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  1889.  Cassell’s Picturesque Australasia, iv. 143. These teams would comprise from five to six pairs of bullocks each, and were driven by a man euphoniously termed a BULL-PUNCHER. Armed with a six-foot thong, fastened to a supple stick seven feet long….

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  1890.  BOLDREWOOD, A Colonial Reformer, xii., 121. By George, Jack, you’re a regular BULLOCKY boy.

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