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sundowner
CIDE DICTIONARY
sundowner, n.
A tramp or vagabond in the Australian bush; -- so called from his coming to sheep stations at sunset of ask for supper and a bed, when it is too late to work; -- called also traveler and swagman (but not all swagmen are sundowners).
"Sundowners, -- men who loaf about till sunset, and then come in with the demand for unrefusable rations." [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sundowner, n.
1 Austral. a tramp who arrives at a sheep station etc. in the evening for food and shelter.
2 Brit. colloq. an alcoholic drink taken at sunset.
1 Austral. a tramp who arrives at a sheep station etc. in the evening for food and shelter.
2 Brit. colloq. an alcoholic drink taken at sunset.
THESAURUS
sundowner
Arab, Bowery bum, Mickey, Mickey Finn, aperitif, beach bum, beachcomber, beggar, beggarly fellow, blighter, bo, budmash, bum, bummer, caitiff, chaser, cocktail, derelict, devil, doch-an-dorrach, dogie, drifter, drink, drunkard, eye-opener, floater, gamin, gamine, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, guttersnipe, highball, hobo, homeless waif, human wreck, idler, knockout drops, landloper, lazzarone, loafer, losel, lowlife, mauvais sujet, mean wretch, mixed drink, mucker, mudlark, nightcap, no-good, parting cup, pauvre diable, piker, pilgarlic, poor creature, poor devil, pousse-cafe, punch, ragamuffin, ragman, ragpicker, roadster, rounder, sad case, sad sack, ski bum, skid-row bum, stiff, stirrup cup, stray, street Arab, street urchin, surf bum, swagman, swagsman, tatterdemalion, tennis bum, tramp, traveler, truant, turnpiker, urchin, vag, vagabond, vagrant, vaurien, waif, waifs and strays, wastrel, wee doch-an-dorrach, worthless fellow, wretchROGET THESAURUS
sundowner
Commonalty
N commonality, commonalty, democracy, obscurity, low condition, low life, low society, low company, bourgeoisie, mass of the people, mass of society, Brown Jones and Robinson, lower classes, humbler classes, humbler orders, vulgar herd, common herd, rank and file, hoc genus omne, the many, the general, the crowd, the people, the populace, the multitude, the million, the masses, the mobility, the peasantry, king Mob, proletariat, fruges consumere nati, demos, hoi polloi, great unwashed, man in the street, mob, rabble, rabble rout, chaff, rout, horde, canaille, scum of the people, residuum of the people, dregs of the people, dregs of society, swinish multitude, foex populi, trash, profanum vulgus, ignobile vulgus, vermin, riffraff, ragtag and bobtail, small fry, commoner, one of the people, democrat, plebeian, republican, proletary, proletaire, roturier, Mr, Snooks, bourgeois, epicier, Philistine, cockney, grisette, demimonde, peasant, countryman, boor, carle, churl, villain, villein, terrae filius, son of the land, serf, kern, tyke, tike, chuff, ryot, fellah, longshoreman, swain, clown, hind, clod, clodhopper, hobnail, yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin, plowman, plowboy, rustic, hayseed, lunkhead, chaw-bacon, tiller of the soil, hewers of wood and drawers of water, groundling, gaffer, loon, put, cub, Tony Lumpkin, looby, rube, lout, underling, gamin, rough, pot- wallopper, slubberdegullion, vulgar fellow, low fellow, cad, curmudgeon, upstart, parvenu, skipjack, nobody, nobody one knows, hesterni quirites, pessoribus orti, bourgeois gentilhomme, novus homo, snob, gent, mushroom, no one knows who, adventurer, man of straw, beggar, gaberlunzie, muckworm, mudlark, sans culotte, raff, tatterdemalion, caitiff, ragamuffin, Pariah, outcast of society, tramp, vagabond, bezonian, panhandler, sundowner, chiffonnier, Cinderella, cinderwench, scrub, jade, gossoon, Goth, Vandal, Hottentot, Zulu, savage, barbarian, Yahoo, unlicked cub, rough diamond, barbarousness, barbarism, boeotia, ignoble, common, mean, low, base, vile, sorry, scrubby, beggarly, below par, no great shakes, homely, homespun, vulgar, low-minded, snobbish, plebeian, proletarian, of low parentage, of low origin, of low extraction, of mean parentage, of mean origin, of mean extraction, lowborn, baseborn, earthborn, mushroom, dunghill, risen from the ranks, unknown to fame, obscure, untitled, rustic, uncivilized, loutish, boorish, clownish, churlish, brutish, raffish, rude, unlicked, barbarous, barbarian, barbaric, barbaresque, cockney, born within sound of Bow bells, underling, menial, subaltern, below the salt, dummodo sit dives barbarus ipse placet.For further exploring for "sundowner" in Webster Dictionary Online