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feral1
a person who leads an alternative lifestyle e.g. the ferals are at the St Andrew's market.
Editor's comments: Here's another term with two distinct regional meanings. [See "feral 2"] Which meaning do you use, and where?
Contributor's comments: Same as feral (1). I have known it in East Gippsland as well. It usualy means someone who is properly crusty - dreds, ragged clothes, bare feet, piercings, dirty skin, etc. "I'm off to the bush to go feral for a while."
Contributor's comments: wild or raucous person(s): "Aw, he's just plain feral." Or as in a nickname of a group of 'feral' people who are friends: "The ferals are going out tonight."
feral2
bogan, rough female typified by tight clothing and thick black eyeliner with blue eyeshadow: Those girls from over there look like real ferals. Compare bevan, bog2, bogan, chigger, booner, boonie, westie.
Editor's comments: Here's another term with two distinct regional meanings. [See "feral 1"] Which meaning do you use, and where?
Contributor's comments: Feral, in my experience, is used to describe a person who leads an alternative lifestyle e.g. the ferals are at the St Andrew's market.
Contributor's comments: In my experience, feral pertains to people who are unwashed, poor education, lower socioecomonic, mullet hairstyle, flannel shirt, black jeans, and non-genderspecific.
Contributor's comments: We use the term in Tassie as well, you say that someone is a bush pig, or a feral. It has become quite a broad insult to females mainly, not necessarily meaning that they are unkempt.