English▸ noun
(plural yarramans or plural yarramen)
Australian English a horse: I can hear a yarraman, I reckon
a mob of bush-bred yarramans.
– ORIGIN mid 19th century: of unknown origin. The word is first attested in the early Australian pidgin used by white settlers and Aboriginal people to communicate with each other; each believed that yarraman was the word for ‘horse’ in the other's language.