Words & TermsWork, bush and rural life
Barcoo
Outback term used in compounds for hardship, roughness and makeshift resourcefulness.
In a sentence
The boundary fence was held together with a bit of Barcoo ingenuity.
Where it came from
Barcoo comes from the Barcoo River and district in western Queensland. Since the 1870s it has appeared in compounds for remote-country hardship, roughness and improvised solutions.
- First recorded
- 1870s
- Initial era
- 1850–1899
- Where used
- Queensland and wider historical use
- Use today
- Historical and remembered; compounds vary