boong
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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An Australian Aboriginal person.
— I heard Bruce tell one of the drinkers he'd bought a place in Queensland where you could ‘still call a Boong a Boong’.
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A native of New Guinea or Malaysia.
— A couple of boongs came down and carried me up to the hut where our R.A.P. corporal was.
词源
Suggested sources are
* Malay bung (“brother”),
* Indonesian dialectal bung (“brother”)
* A New Guinea native language
* An Aboriginal Australian language.
Previously the word Binghi was used widely in similar fashion to the present-day use of the term Negro for peoples of African ancestry; see titles from this booklist and also writings of Xavier Herbert (e.g. in Capricornia), for example.
* Malay bung (“brother”),
* Indonesian dialectal bung (“brother”)
* A New Guinea native language
* An Aboriginal Australian language.
Previously the word Binghi was used widely in similar fashion to the present-day use of the term Negro for peoples of African ancestry; see titles from this booklist and also writings of Xavier Herbert (e.g. in Capricornia), for example.
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