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crawchie
noun an Australian freshwater crayfish, of the genus Cherax. Compare clawchie, craydab, crayfish, jilgie, lobby, lobster, marron, yabby.
Contributor's comments: We used crawchie for freshwater crayfish around Rockhampton when I was a child (50s).
Contributor's comments: Used in and around Rockhampton, Central Queensland, but Gladstone - only an hour and a half away used lobby.
Contributor's comments: We used the term in Rockhampton.
Contributor's comments: The term was used in the local area where I grew up - Cessnock in the lower Hunter Valley.
Contributor's comments: As children in central Queensland we all used [yabbie], however when going to boarding school at the coast noticed the use of crawchi (no idea of spelling) instead.
Contributor's comments: Used in Yeppoon (4703) in the 1980s.
Contributor's comments: I grew up in Rockhampton in the 70s and we would go down to the creek to catch crawchies for the fishtank.
Contributor's comments: Another word for yabby, or fresh water shrimp: "We are going to the creek/dam/river to fish for crawtchies."
Contributor's comments: I have just added this to list, but I spelt it "crawtchie" - I also grew up in Rockhampton in the 50s and 60s.
Contributor's comments: In the Lake Macquarie area where I grew up, they were always called "crawchies" during the 1950s and early 1960s. I noticed a switch to "Yabbies" later during the 1970s and 1980s.
Contributor's comments: Crawchie was used in Blackall. As a child we would go out and catch "Crawchies" from the board-drains that run throught the paddocks around Blackall. The drains are now gradually disappearing because of bores being capped to save water.
Contributor's comments: Lived in CQ area all my life, always used to go catching crawchies in the Dawson River and creeks of that area.