ABSP - Native Australian

Native Australian

Words

adjigo	a plant native to Australia that has edible tubers, aka yam plant > ADJIGOS.
alchera alcheringa	the dreamtime.
bangalay	an Australian myrtaceous tree with hard red wood.
bangalow	an Australian palm-tree.
bardie	a white wood-boring grub of Australia > BARDIES.
barra	short for BARRAMUNDI, an Australian fish.
barramunda barramundi burramundi	an Australian river-fish.
belah	an Australian tree of the Casuarina genus.
bettong	a short-nosed rat kangaroo > BETTONGS.
billabong	a dead-end channel; a stagnant backwater.
bimble	as in bimble box, a type of dense Australian tree. No —S.
binghi	the archetypal aboriginal.
bingy	(slang) the stomach.
bogong bugong	a noctuid moth eaten by Australian aborigines.
bombora	a submerged reef; a dangerous current over this.
boobialla	an Australian tree, aka golden wattle.
boobook	a kind of owl found in Australasia, aka MOPOKE, MOREPORK.
boodie	a species of rat-kangaroo.
boong	an offensive term for an aborigine, a New Guinea native.
boongary	a tree kangaroo from NE Queensland.
bora	an aboriginal initiation rite.
borak	nonsense, banter.
boree	any of several species of Australian acacia.
brigalow	any of several species of acacia.
brolga	an Australian bird of the crane family
budgeree	obs. Aust. slang for good. [Aborigine budgeri].
budgerigar	an Australian parakeet.
bullwaddy bulwaddee bulwaddy bullwaddie	a N. Australian tree.
bulnbuln	the lyrebird.
bungwall	an Australian fern with an edible rhizome.
bunya	an Australian coniferous tree with edible seeds.
bunyip	a fabulous monster of swamps and lagoons.
burrawang	any of various palm-like plants having edible nuts.
callop	an edible freshwater fish of Australia.
carbeen	an Australian eucalyptus with drooping branches and grey bark.
churinga	a sacred amulet of the Australian aborigines.
coala koala	an Australian marsupial.
coolabah coolibah coolibar	a species of Australian eucalyptus tree.
coolamon	a shallow vessel made of wood or bark used by Australian aborigines to hold water etc.
corella	an Australian long-billed cockatoo.
corroboree	a noisy festivity.
cowal	a shallow lake or swamp.
cumbungi	a tall Australian marsh plant > CUMBUNGIS.
cunjevoi	a tall Australian plant of the arum family whose corms were formerly cooked as food; also, a kind of sea squirt found on Australian reefs and rocks and used as bait.
currajong kurrajong	an Australian evergreen.
currawong	an Australian crow-like bird with a resounding call.
currejong currijong kurrajong	an Australian evergreen.
didgeridoo didjeridoo	a native Australian musical instrument.
dilli dilly	an Australian aboriginal bag made of woven grass or fibre.
dingo	the Australian wild dog > DINGOES.
dunnart	a marsupial mouse of Australia and Papua New Guinea.
eugarie yugarie	another name for PIPI, any of various shellfishes.
eumong eumung	an Australian acacia. Also EUMUNG.
euro	any of several large types of kangaroo, aka WALLAROO.
galah	an Australian bird of the parrot family; (fig.) a loud, rude person.
geebung	an Australia proteaceous tree.
ghilgai gilgai	a saucer-shaped depression forming a natural reservoir.
gidgee gidjee	a small acacia tree whose foliage gives off an unpleasant odour.
gilgie jilgie	a small freshwater crayfish, aka YABBY or YABBIE.
gub gubbah	a white man.
gunyah	an Australian aborigine's hut.
hielaman	an Australian Aboriginal narrow shield of bark and wood.
humpy	an Australian Aboriginal bush dwelling of simple construction.
irukandji	a venomous jellyfish found off the coast of Australia.
jackaroo jackeroo	a newcomer gaining experience at a sheep-station; (verb) to work as a newcomer at a sheep farm.
jarrah	the mahogany-like wood of the Australian tree Eucalyptus marginata.
kadaitcha	in certain Central Australian aboriginal tribes, a man with the mission of avenging the death of a tribesman.
kangaroo	a large marsupial.
karri	a Western Australian gum tree.
kiley kylie	a boomerang.
kookaburra goburra	a large Australian kingfisher. Its call sounds like a raucous laugh.
koolah	an obsolete form of KOALA.
koori	a young Aborigine girl.
lerp	in Australia, a scalelike, waxy, protective, edible secretion produced on the leaves of certain plant louse larvae.
lowan	an Australian bird, the mallee-bird. [Aboriginal lauan].
lubra	an aboriginal woman.
luderick	an estuarine and rock fish of Australia.
mallee	a scrubby Australian evergreen tree.
marri	a eucalyptus of W. Australia, with coloured flowers.
marron	a freshwater crayfish of W. Australia.
marron	a freshwater crayfish of W. Australia.
mickery	a well or waterhole, esp in a dry riverbed.
morwong	an Australasian food fish.
mugga	an Australian eucalyptus with dark bark and pink flowers.
mulga	a kind of acacia found in arid regions of Australia.
mulloway	a large Australian food-fish. [Aborigine malowe].
muntrie	an Australian shrub with green-red edible berries.
murree murri	a native Australian.
myall	an Australian aborigine living traditionally; also a kind of acacia.
nannygai nannyghai nennigai	a large edible marine fish.
nardoo	an Australian name for Marsilea drummondii, a four-leaved cryptogamous plant, sometimes used for food.
numbat	a small Australian marsupial that feeds on termites.
paddymelon padymelon pademelon	any of several small wallabies.
parakeelya parakelia	a succulent Australian herb.
perentie perenty	a large monitor lizard of Australia.
pindan	a desert region of Western Australia.
pituri	an Australian solanaceous shrub.
potoroo	any small kangaroo belonging to Hypsiprymnus, Bettongia, and allied genera, native of Australia and Tasmania. Aka kangaroo rat.
quandang quandong quantong	a small Australian tree of the sandalwood family.
quarrian quarrion	a kind of COCKATIEL.
quokka	a small marsupial found in W. Australia.
quoll	an Australian marsupial, about the size of a cat.
taipan	an Australian venomous snake.
tammar	a small scrub wallaby.
tarwhine	an Australian sea-bream.
tewart tooart tuart	a strong-timbered eucalyptus.
tuan	an Australian arboreal marsupial.
tundun turndun	an Australian bullroarer.
waddy	a kind of war-club used by Australian aborigines; (verb) to strike with a waddy.
wallaby	any of a number of small marsupials of the family Macropodidae.[Aboriginal word wolaba].
wallaroo	any of several large types of kangaroo.
wambenger	a small Australian marsupial, aka TUAN.
wandoo	an Australian hardwood tree.
waratah	any of a genus of Australian proteaceous shrubs with very showy flowers.
warragal warrigal warragle warragul	the Australian wild dog, the dingo.
wilga	a small white-flowered Australian tree.
wilja wiltja	an aboriginal hut.
wirilda	an Australian acacia tree.
wirrah	a saltwater fish with bright blue spots.
witchetty	any of the edible grubs of certain moths and longhorn beetles. [Aborig. wityu hooked stick + varti grub.]
wobbegong	a carpet shark.
wombat	any of three species of Australian burrowing marsupial.
womera woomera wommera woomerang	a stick for launching a spear with greater force.
wongi	to talk or chat.
wudjula	a non-aboriginal person.
wurley wurlie	a nest; an aboriginal hut > WURLEYS or WURLIES.
yabber	talk, conversation; (verb) to talk. [Australian pidgin, probably from aboriginal yabba, language.]
yabbie yabby	a small freshwater crayfish.
yacker yakker yakka	hard work, toil.
yarraman	a horse.
yarran	a small eucalyptus tree.
yidaki	a long wooden wind instrument played by the Aboriginal people of Arnhem Land > YIDAKIS.
yowie	a tall ape-like monster of SE Austalia. [Aborigine yuwi, dream-spirit].
yugarie	see EUGARIE.

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