Meaning of King Billy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Imaginary king of the Australian aboriginal people.
   Australia, obsolete
2. Tasmanian aboriginal man William Lanne (c.1835-1869) believed to have been the last Tasmanian aboriginal man.
3. Any one of various other aboriginal men at times referred to as King Billy.
4. King William III of England.
   Ireland, Scotland, informal

Examples

“1901, Henry Lawson, A Bush Publican's Lament, republished in Children of the Bush, Gutenberg eBook #7065, An' supposen Ole King Billy an' his ole black gin comes round at holiday time and squats on the verander, […] .”

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