"cockatoo farmer" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Probably refers to the practice of working a small patch of land for a short period before moving on, in the manner of a feeding cockatoo. Alternatively so called to compare the farmers with the common sulphur-crested cockatoo, which come down on the newly sown cornfields in myriads.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1875, Anthony Trollope, edited by Bradford Allen Booth, The Tireless Traveler: Twenty Letters to the Liverpool Mercury, page 177:",
          "text": "The cockatoo farmer of South Australia lives a plentiful but not a picturesque life, and unless he gets hopelessly into debt is his own master.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1888, William Gordon Stables, From Squire to Squatter, page 182:",
          "text": "“ Does it pay to breed cockatoos ?” said Archie innocently.\n“Don′t be the death o′ me, Johnnie. A cockatoo farmer is just a crofter.[…]”",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1911, The Academy, volume 81, page 415:",
          "text": "This is the dwelling of a cockatoo-farmer, the humble agriculturist who makes the most of his thirty or forty acres of land,[…]",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small-scale farmer."
      ],
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          "small-scale",
          "small-scale"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, derogatory, obsolete) A small-scale farmer."
      ],
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  "word": "cockatoo farmer"
}

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  "etymology_text": "Probably refers to the practice of working a small patch of land for a short period before moving on, in the manner of a feeding cockatoo. Alternatively so called to compare the farmers with the common sulphur-crested cockatoo, which come down on the newly sown cornfields in myriads.",
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "en:Agriculture"
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          "text": "The cockatoo farmer of South Australia lives a plentiful but not a picturesque life, and unless he gets hopelessly into debt is his own master.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1888, William Gordon Stables, From Squire to Squatter, page 182:",
          "text": "“ Does it pay to breed cockatoos ?” said Archie innocently.\n“Don′t be the death o′ me, Johnnie. A cockatoo farmer is just a crofter.[…]”",
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        },
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      ],
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        "A small-scale farmer."
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