"The cry of `Joey' would rise everywhere against them."
[Footnote]: "To `Joey' or `Joe' a person on the diggings, or anywhere else in Australia, is to grossly insult and ridicule him."
1863. B. A. Heywood, `Vacation Tour at the Antipodes,' p. 165:
"In the early days of the Australian diggings `Joe' was the warning word shouted out when the police or gold commissioners were seen approaching, but is now the chaff for new chums."
1865. F. H. Nixon, `Peter Perfume,' p. 58:
"And Joe joed them out, Tom toed them out."
1891. `The Argus,' Dec. 5, p. 13, col. 4:
"`The diggers,' he says, `were up in arms against the Government officials, and whenever a policeman or any other Government servant was seen they raised the cry of "Joe-Joe."' The term was familiar to every man in the fifties. In the earliest days of the diggings proclamations were issued on diverse subjects, but mostly in the direction of curtailing the privileges of the miners. These were signed, `C. Joseph La Trobe,' and became known by the irreverent—not to say flippant —description of `Joes.' By an easy transition, the corruption of the second name of the Governor was applied to his officers, between whom and the spirited diggers no love was lost, and accordingly the appearance of a policeman on a lead was signalled to every tent and hole by the cry of `Joe-Joe.'"
<hw>Joey</hw>, <i>n</i>. (1) A young kangaroo.
1839. W. H. Leigh, `Reconnoitring Voyages in South Australia' pp. 93-4: