Jackarooesse

Origin

From jackaroo + -esse("feminine suffix").

Only the plural appears in Henry Lawson. The singular form jackarooesse (not jackarooess) is as listed by Baker.

1966, Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, Second Edition, index, page 482.

Full definition of jackarooesse

Noun

1. (Australia, obsolete, rare) A female jackaroo.
• 1910, Henry Lawson, The Exciseman, in The Rising of the Court and Other Sketches in Prose and Verse Project Gutenberg eBook #7447,These, and a big bucket-handled frying-pan and a few rusty convict-time arms on the slab walls, were mostly to amuse jackaroos and jackarooesses, and let them think they were getting into the Australian-dontcherknow at last.

Usage notes

The term jillaroo is used today.