[Fictionary] new new word: spurtle and theevil

[Ranjit Bhatnagar]

A few of you knew that jackaroos and jillaroos are assistant cowboys and
cowgirls in Australia, pretty much.  Many of you guessed, quite reasonably,
that those are Australian words.

So I've got another pair for you, again related in meaning: *spurtle and
theevil*.   Let me know if you know either / both of these words.

Again I'll ask for an informal definition, rather than dictionary-style,
and someone asked me to clarify what I meant by that.  I mean something
that could be an excerpt from a book or conversation explaining what the
words mean, but not necessarily with the strict word - part of speech -
compact definition format that dictionaries use.

Dictionary-style:

jackaroo, n. A young man living as an apprentice on a sheep station, or
otherwise engaged in acquainting himself with colonial life.
- Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Informal:

She left school at thirteen-years-of-age to work with her father as a
jillaroo: building fences, mustering cattle, and working at various jobs on
stations throughout Queensland and New South Wales.
- from an author bio on a novel
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