I get a Word-of-the Day email every day. The word today is "Yarra-banker." At first I thought it had something to do with banking in Australia. At least I was half right.
Yarra-banker
PRONUNCIATION:
(YAHR-uh-bangk-uhr)
MEANING:
noun:
1. A vagrant or a loafer.
2. A soapbox orator or agitator.
ETYMOLOGY:
After the Yarra river in Victoria, Australia. Its bank was once a popular hangout for vagrants, soapbox orators, and the like. Earliest documented use: late 19th century.
Hassie
Loc: Central Pennsylvania
Sounds like a congressman in Washington.
dancers
Loc: melbourne.victoria, australia
jerryc41 wrote:
I get a Word-of-the Day email every day. The word today is "Yarra-banker." At first I thought it had something to do with banking in Australia. At least I was half right.
Yarra-banker
PRONUNCIATION:
(YAHR-uh-bangk-uhr)
MEANING:
noun:
1. A vagrant or a loafer.
2. A soapbox orator or agitator.
ETYMOLOGY:
After the Yarra river in Victoria, Australia. Its bank was once a popular hangout for vagrants, soapbox orators, and the like. Earliest documented use: late 19th century.
I get a Word-of-the Day email every day. The word... (
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In MELBOURNE to be specific.................I have lived here for almost 90 years and have never hear of this word.
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