boong
Meanings
noun
- An Australian Aboriginal person.
- A native of New Guinea or Malaysia.
Pronunciation
Word forms
Etymology
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.
Synonyms
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