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词汇 outbackery
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Definition of outbackery in English:

outbackery

noun aʊtˈbak(ə)ri
mass nounAustralian
  • 1The attitudes, values, and behaviour supposedly characteristic of people who live in the outback.

    we veer between outdated outbackery and anxious superiority
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A map of the country is studded with place names that evoke a facetiously romantic outbackery.
    • Another example of outbackery is that at some time someone must have tried to get a wide load across the bridge but it was a little too narrow, so they took to the bridge cross braces and cut pieces off so the load could pass through.
    • With more wealth and more and more new gimmicks like motor-mowers, fridges, pressure-cookers and cars, we began to dismiss the image of the explorer, the bushranger, the whole outbackery.
    • This is where all sorts of devious outbackery happens, like building a bridge where the approach road runs through the middle of a pub!
    • He had his own brand of outbackery to add to the flavour of the bush scene.
    • What I hate is the back-patting chest-slapping Aussie blokey outbackery that seems to me contrived, blinkered, and ersatz.
    • The snack bar at the YHA does nice fish n chips as well - very outbackery, eh?
    • Please post more pictures of your van and maybe some shark riding, roo racing, croc wrestling and general outbackery!
    1. 1.1 Literature or art set in or influenced by the outback.
      the novel looks at first sight like just another piece of run-of-the-mill outbackery
      Example sentencesExamples
      • When I returned to the stamping ground of my childhood, I declared that I wouldn't join the army of outbackery scribes; I wouldn't write about it.
      • We felt we were extending and broadening a radical tradition that, for the general reader, had been reduced to the 'outbackery' of Frank Clune and Ion Idriess.
      • The craft of poetry centred around a series of desperate elaborations of bush balladry and outbackery.
      • When critics castigate him for painting what they call 'outbackery' it ought to be remembered that in terms of Australian contemporary painting, he largely originated the current interest in these themes.
      • Both of these plays are bits of outbackery.

Origin

1960s: from outback + -ery.

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