Thick bullocky shoulders. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I draw for Speckle's Mill, bullocky oh, bullocky oh. From Wordnik.com. [Bullocky Oh] Reference
There's Wapples, too: he brags, bullocky oh bullocky oh. From Wordnik.com. [Bullocky Oh] Reference
Me say — ‘Me look out bullocky, musser ’em cattle. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference
There's Guinea and Anderson too, bullocky oh, bullocky oh. From Wordnik.com. [Bullocky Oh] Reference
I'm the king of bullock drivers, don't you know, bullocky oh. From Wordnik.com. [Bullocky Oh] Reference
"Jabberwocky", but a bullocky was actually a person who drove cattle to market. From Wordnik.com. [mental_floss Blog] Reference
I can see I'm going to be inundated with emails about my bullocky advocacy of a life of frenzy. From Wordnik.com. [SYNTAGMA] Reference
Nowlett, the bullocky, and one or two of the old, better-class diggers that were left on the field. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Sliprails] Reference
Or Bill Something, the bullocky, who was run over by his own wagon, while he was drunk, and got his leg broke. From Wordnik.com. [Children of the Bush] Reference
That, combined with the fact that they worked with "bull" (which had the same connotations we know today), could have helped bullocky evolve into a term for ridiculous or dispensable speech. From Wordnik.com. [mental_floss Blog] Reference
The word is not unknown to Australians since a very well-known poem, "bullocky," by Judith Wright, tells how the bullocky (driver of a bullock team) "weathered all the striding years till they ran widdershins in his brain.". From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 1] Reference
I romped with dogs, climbed trees after birds 'nests, drove the bullocks in the dray, under the instructions of Ben, our bullocky, and always accompanied my father when he went swimming in the clear, mountain, shrub-lined stream which ran deep and lone among the weird gullies, thickly carpeted with maidenhair and numberless other species of ferns. From Wordnik.com. [My Brilliant Career] Reference
As to the effect of the wound they say, “Suppose that fella nail go along your foot, you sing out all a same bullocky all night. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference
And it's many a log I drew, bullocky oh. From Wordnik.com. [Bullocky Oh] Reference
Of his forty raw-boned stags, bullocky oh. From Wordnik.com. [Bullocky Oh] Reference
And it's many a log they drew, bullocky oh. From Wordnik.com. [Bullocky Oh] Reference
But a good hard - working bullocky forward. From Wordnik.com. [The Stark Munro Letters] Reference
Some fella sing out all a same bullocky.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference
But a good hard-working bullocky forward. From Wordnik.com. [The Stark Munro Letters] Reference
“Work, work, work, all asame bullocky,” as he put it, rasped on his feelings. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference
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