YOWIE (pl YOWIES; v YOW, YOWE; fr YOWOUI) n. a tall hairy gentleman of the bush and outback regions of Australia; —— of the suburbs or outer CBD (less common). First rec. 1805 NSW in colonist Jim Timbers’ (1759-1805; see P. J. Timbers line) diary: ‘Fortune has come at last, for I have found the…