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donga
noun- (especially in South Australia) natural bush wilderness AUSTRALIA
- He stared at the darkening sky, listened to the mournful howl of a dingo across the wastes of the donga, cursing himself for his stupidity. — Jean Brooks, The Opal Witch, p. 25, 1967
- The whole battalion camped out in the donga. — Clive James, Unreliable Memoirs, p. 153, 1980
- a temporary dwelling AUSTRALIA, 1900
- The air inside the closed donga was hot and stale. — James McQueen, Uphill Runner, p. 128, 1984
- a watercourse AUSTRALIA, 1902
- — Dymphna Cusack, Picnic Races, p. 120, 1962
- On a flat and treeless piece of plain was a bare circle of reddish clay, shaped to form the shallowest of depressions and known as a donga. — Ray Ericksen, West of Centre, p. 87, 1972
- a sleeping area ANTARCTICA
An Australian contribution to the language of the South Pole. - — Cool Antarctica, 2003: “Antarctic slang”
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