LL-L "Names" 2003.11.11 (08) [E]

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From: Andrys Onsman <Andrys.Onsman at CeLTS.monash.edu.au>
Subject: LL-L "Names" 2003.11.11 (02) [E]

From: Andrys Onsman
To: Sam Claire
Subject: LL-L names galore

> The relatively modern tag for the laboring man who fells trees, a logger,
is
> a lumberjack.  Those women who engage in this trade are "lumberjills."
>
And in Australia, the female equivalent of a Jackaroo (an itinerant
station/farm/ranch worker - one who presumably hops from job to job) is
a Jillaroo.

Has anyone heard the expression "behind Jack's house"? What does it
mean?

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