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1. bingy, n. View full entry 1859
...The stomach, belly. Also attrib....
2. bogy | bogey, n.2 View full entry 1849
...A bathe....
3. boong, n. View full entry 1941
...An (Australian) Aboriginal; a native of New Guinea; also, any coloured person....
4. borak, n. View full entry 1845
...Nonsense, humbug; chaff, banter; esp. in to poke (the) borak, to make or poke fun....
5. budgeree, adj. View full entry 1793
...Good, excellent....
6. bung, adj.2 View full entry 1882
...Dead....
7. dingo, n. View full entry 1789
...The wild, or semi-domesticated dog of Australia, Canis dingo....
8. galah, n. View full entry 1862
...A very common, small Australian cockatoo with a pink breast and grey back, Eolophus roseicapilla. Also called rose-breasted cockatoo....
9. kangaroo, n. View full entry 1773
...A marsupial mammal of the family Macropodidæ, remarkable for the great development of the hind-quarters and the leaping-power resulting from this. The species are natives of Australia, Tasmania, Papua, and...
10. lubra, n. View full entry 1847
...An Australian Aboriginal woman....
11. mallee, n. View full entry 1845
...More fully mallee scrub. A vegetation community consisting of dense scrub dominated by low-growing bushy eucalypts, characteristic of semi-desert areas of Victoria and some other parts of southern Australia....
12. mulga, n. View full entry 1839
...An item, esp. a shield or club, made of the wood of a mulga tree (see sense 2)....
13. mundowie, n. View full entry 1880
...A foot; a footprint....
14. munjon, n. View full entry 1945
...An Australian Aborigine who has little experience of white society and its customs. Sometimes also: an Aborigine brought up in white society and therefore unfamiliar with the traditional Aboriginal way of life....
15. † murry, adv. (and adj.) View full entry 1818
...As an intensifier: very, extremely. Also as : great....
16. pialla, v. View full entry 1830
...trans. Esp. in Australian Aboriginal usage: to tell, relate (news, etc.); to speak to, entreat (someone). Also intr.: to talk....
17. quandong, n. View full entry 1836
...A shrub or small tree native to southern Australia, Santalum acuminatum (family Santalaceae), bearing racemes of small greenish-white flowers and edible bright red fruit; the fruit of this;...
18. yakka, n. View full entry 1888
...Work, toil; esp. in phr. hard yakka....
