esky n.
1. (US) a derog. term for an Inuit, an Eskimo person or an Eskimo dog.
Maledicta II:1+2 (Summer/Winter) 156: Esky Diminutive for Eskimo, applied chiefly to Eskimo people and customs, rather than as a euphemism. |
2. (Aus.) a portable drinks cooler, popularly filled with beer for cricket watching etc.
National Geographic Mag. Feb. 228: No less popular is Rugby League football, where raucous fans with well-stocked ‘eskies’—beer coolers—scream and swill and brawl. | ||
Up the Cross 84: Brucie [...] camouflaged the freshly replenished Esky under a heap of tarpaulin. | (con. 1959)||
Songlines 75: An ‘Eski’, for ‘Eskimo’, is a polystyrene cool-pack without which a journey into the desert is unthinkable. | ||
Chopper From The Inside 24: I used to have a small eskie that floated on the water. | ||
(con. 1964-65) Sex and Thugs and Rock ’n’ Roll 94: ‘If you’d like a Coke, they’re [...] in the esky’. | ||
Turning (2005) 18: The Landy’s motor was running [...] eskies strapped aboard. | ‘Abbreviation’ in||
www.news.com.au 2 July 🌐 Can swear mid-word, loves a nudie run, Ned Kelly, a barbecue and has an esky of beers kept next to his bed. |