broomie
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From broom + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).
Noun
[edit]broomie (plural broomies)
- (informal) A person who wields a broom.
- 2005, Bernie DeKoven, Junkyard Sports[1], page 37:
- Two players are named broomies, and each is positioned at either end of the court. Each has two brooms.
- (informal, Australia) A person who sweeps the floor and possibly does other menial tasks in a shearing shed.
- 1913, New South Wales Dept of Agriculture, The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales[2], volume 23, page 872:
- In some big single-board sheds, where pickers-up and broomies have to dodge shearers who are continually crossing the board, plenty of space is necessary, and the board should not be less than 10 feet wide.
- 1990, John Bernard D′Arcy, Sheep Management and Wool Technology[3], page 103:
- The ′broomie′, or board boy, should keep the wool pushed up to the lamb being shorn.
- (informal, US) A broomtail (unbroken range mare).
- 1927, David M. Newell, Cougars & Cowboys[4], page 134:
- In the lead of the broomies ran a beautiful cream buckskin, with black mane flying proudly!
- 1972 August, Adrienne Richard, Sundance and the Princess, Boys' Life, page 22,
- A broomtail, we called it, and usually broomies had their tails “pulled,” trimmed up, when they were broken to saddle, but I didn't want Sundance′s tail cut.
- 1989, Stella Hughes, Hashknife Cowboy: Recollections of Mack Hughes[5], page 165:
- One day after corralling a bunch of broomies in a pole corral, I roped a big blue-roan mare that wore a brand.