blucher: a kind of half-boot (named after the Austrian general) Leberecht von Blücher
blued: of a wages cheque: all spent extravagantly—and rapidly.
bluey: swag. Supposedly because blankets were mostly blue (so Lawson)
boggabri: Probably Aboriginal for several low herbs, esp. Amaranthus mitchelli, Chenopodium pumilio, C. carinatum and Commelina cyanea (scurvy grass); also a town in NSW. [Australian National Dictionary, OUP 1988] What then is a ‘tater-marrer’ (potato-marrow?). Any help?
bowyangs: ties (cord, rope, cloth) put around trouser legs below knee
bullocky: Bullock driver. A man who drove teams of bullocks yoked to wagons carrying, e.g., wool bales or provisions. Proverbially rough and foul mouthed.
bush: originally referred to the low tangled scrubs of the semi-desert regions (‘mulga’ and ‘mallee’), and hence equivalent to “outback”. Now used generally for remote rural areas (“the bush”) and scrubby forest.
bushfire: wild fires: whether forest fires or grass fires.
bushman/bushwoman: someone who lives an isolated existence, far from cities, “in the bush”. (today: a “bushy”)
bushranger: an Australian “highwayman”, who lived in the ‘bush’— scrub—and attacked especially gold carrying coaches and banks. Romanticised as anti-authoritarian Robin Hood figures—cf. Ned Kelly—but usually very violent.