Meaning of blackfellow | Babel Free

Definitions

A (male) Australian Aboriginal.

Australia, ethnic, slur

Examples

“"Me like my country — no much too hot, no much too cold. By and bye, white fellow come — soldier-man come. White fellow say, this our land, that our land — ALL country our land. Black fellow say no! my country no white fellow's country, and black fellow take spear.”

“He was squatting on the ground like a blackfellow, quiet and still and cunning.”

“It was as if the blackfellas were their property, and the Board could do with them as they saw fit.”

“A blackfella and a whitefella are sitting at the bar. The whitefella says to the blackfella eh boss, whadya reckon? The blackfella says since you ask, I consider it a metaphor of the historic case of the Coorong massacre of 1840.”

“Most police officers had no blackfella cultural background, no knowledge of Aboriginal priorities in life, yet they were the power in the town.”

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