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puhekieltä An itinerant worker, such as a swagman, who arrives at a farm too late in the day to do any work, but readily accepts food and lodging.
2008, w:Arthur Upfield|Arthur Upfield, Kees de Hoog (editor), Wisp of Wool and Disk of Silver, Up and Down Australia, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=XsqJt5edlYYC&pg=PA279&lpg=PA279&dq=%22sundowner%22 %22sundowners%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=7OqkBNGNnb&sig=liQn0cuvMXLi-EARiFCR0q02nDU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=P1BsUKPYMuaAiQeB0YDAAQ&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22sundowner%22|%22sundowners%22%20australia%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 279,
- What he saw was not usual in this part of Australia - a sundowner, a bush waif who tramps from north to south or from east to west, never working, cadging rations from the far-flung homesteads and having the ability of the camel to do without water, or find it.
2010, w:John Hirst (historian)|John Hirst, Looking for Australia: Historical Essays, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=v5OBkolXcj4C&pg=PA60&lpg=PA60&dq=%22sundowner%22 %22sundowners%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=x98IS3nGdi&sig=rb1a6MIvcd2bymhOwrhFGCvyQgE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=P1BsUKPYMuaAiQeB0YDAAQ&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22sundowner%22|%22sundowners%22%20australia%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 60,
- Like the Australian sundowners, some of these trampers were suspected of never wanting to find a job.
puhekieltä An itinerant worker, a swagman.
puhekieltä A sea captain who shows harsh discipline by requiring all hands to be on board by sundown.http://navyadministration.tpub.com/12966/css/12966_381.htm Navy Administration - Glossary
1985, Ronald H. Spector, Eagle Against the Sun,
- Arrogant, aloof, and suspicious, a “sundowner,” or strict disciplinarian, King inspired respect in many but affection in few.
puhekieltä A patient, usually demented, who tends to become agitated in the evening.
1977, Jules Hymen Masserman, Current Psychiatric Therapies, page 179,
- These patients may improve by day only to relapse at night (nocturnal delirium or 'sundowners''' syndrome).
1989: William H. Reid, The Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders: Revised for the DSM III R., http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0876305362 page 71,
- They generally occur in the evening or at night in the form of "sundowner" syndrome, as a result of diminished sensory input and social isolation and/or exposure to an unfamiliar environment (e.g., the hospital).
2007 February 7, Dennis Fiely, http://www.dispatch.com/dispatch/contentbe/dispatch/2007/02/07/20070207-B1-00.html Dark Ages: For the elderly fighting mental or physical problems, life takes a frightening turn when nighttime comes, The Columbus Dispatch
- “Sundowner′s syndrome” refers to changes in mood and behavior that begin near dusk.
puhekieltä A cocktail consumed at sunset, or to signify the end of the day.
1918, Robert Valentine Dolbey, Sketches of the East Africa Campaign, page 117,
- The cocktail, the universal “sherry and bitters” and sundowner will have to be retained.
*1952, (w), Martha Quest, Panther 1974, p. 146:
- Mrs. Lowe-Island … had imagined the Sports Club as a large shadowy veranda, with native servants standing like willing statues around the walls, plenty of sundowners, and that laughter which is the result of personal comment ….
2005, Franz Wisner, Honeymoon With My Brother: A Memoir, page 243,
- Per custom, we capped our drives with a sundowner cocktail party at a scenic vantage point.
A cocktail party held in the early evening.
2005, Edward M. Bruner, Culture on Tour: Ethnographies of Travel, page 83,
- The Sundowner is basically a cocktail party with a buffet on a riverbank in the bush.
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