Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(Australia, now usually considered offensive, ethnic slur) A white settler in Australia; a non-Aboriginal Australian; often used attributively..
In native title matters, there is a lot of talk about litigation, mediation, negotiation and questions about whitefeller law.
"Me like my country — no much too hot, no much too cold. By and bye, white fellow come — soldier-man come. White fellow say, this our land, that our land — ALL country our land. Black fellow say no! my country no white fellow's country, and black fellow take spear.
Even though they did not work for whites, almost every aboriginal desired a white-feller name. Apparently it helped take away the taint of munjon.
The whitefellers did not let anyone but whitefellers learn their ways properly, he knew that now.
‘No use,’ some friends said, miserably. ‘We can′t take them down until sunset, that is whitefeller law.’
In the distance the whitefeller lights of Bluebush cast an ugly orange pallor into the sky. Gypsy was a Kantulyu woman, grown to adulthood in the desert out west. Hadn′t seen a whitefeller until she was in her twenties.
Use whitefeller when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Whitefeller means (Australia, now usually considered offensive, ethnic slur) A white settler in Australia; a non-Aboriginal Australian; often used attributively..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
In native title matters, there is a lot of talk about litigation, mediation, negotiation and questions about whitefeller law.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.