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1. boylya, n. View full entry 1841
...In Western Australia: an Australian Aborigine with skills in traditional medicine, who is thought to have spiritual and magical powers....
2. 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....
3. 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....
4. pink-eyeing, adj. View full entry 1899
...Of a person or group: that takes part in a holiday or walkabout (walkabout2a)....
5. 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;...
6. woop woop, n. View full entry 1926
...A jocular name for a remote rural town or district; also (without the and with capital initials) as the name of an imaginary place in a remote area. ...
