What Is a Jumbuck?

Jumbuck is an Australian term for a male sheep, and is featured in Banjo Paterson's poem "Waltzing Matilda".

What is an Australian jumbuck?

jumbuck. Jumbuck is an Australian word for a 'sheep'. It is best known from Banjo Paterson's use of it in Waltzing Matilda.

What is a jumbuck in Waltzing Matilda?

The title was Australian slang for travelling on foot (waltzing) with one's belongings in a "matilda" (swag) slung over one's back. ... The song narrates the story of an itinerant worker, or "swagman", making a drink of billy tea at a bush camp and capturing a stray jumbuck (sheep) to eat.