English

Alternative forms

• whitefella
• whitefellow

Noun

whitefeller ‎(plural whitefellers)

1. (Australia) A white settler in Australia; a non-Aboriginal Australian; often used attributively.

   In native title matters, there is a lot of talk about litigation, mediation, negotiation and questions about whitefeller law.

   • 1959, Donald Stuart, Yandy, page 11,

     The whitefellers did not let anyone but whitefellers learn their ways properly, he knew that now.

   • 1992, Patricia Shaw, The Feather and the Stone, 2011, unnumbered page,

     ‘No use,’ some friends said, miserably. ‘We can′t take them down until sunset, that is whitefeller law.’

   • 2010, Adrian Hyland, Gunshot Road, page 4,

     In the distance the whitefeller lights of Bluebush cast an ugly orange pallor into the sky.

     Gypsy was a Kantulyu woman, grown to adulthood in the desert out west. Hadn′t seen a whitefeller until she was in her twenties.

Coordinate terms

• blackfeller