brickfielder

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Definition of brickfielder in English English dictionary

A hot wind blowing from the interior of the continent

It blew across the Brickfields, formerly so called, a district of Sydney, and carried clouds of dust into the city

at Sydney, a cold and violent south or southwest wind, rising suddenly, and regularly preceded by a hot wind from the north; now usually called southerly buster

By confusion, a midsummer hot wind from the north

Orig

Hyphenation

brick·field·er

Etymology

() From Brickfield Hill in Sydney where the wind blew from into that city in its early days. The term spread to Melbourne by circa 1850, and to central Australia by circa 1900, then to Western Australia. (Refernce: The Lingo: Listening to Australian English, Graham Seal, University of New South Wales Press, 1999, ISBN 086840-680-5, page 25.)