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willy-willy
noun
a small, localised whirlwind AUSTRALIA, 1894
From the Australian Aboriginal language Yindjibarndi.- WILLY-WILLY–Aboriginal name for whirlwind. — Gilbert H. Lawson, A Dictionary of Australian Words and Terms, 1924
- — Gavin Casey, It’s Harder for Girls, p. 88, 1941
- “It came very suddenly,” he complained, as though we had sent the fiendish willy-willy. — Kylie Tennant, The Honey Flow, p. 43, 1956
- A hot blast of air, a spiralling willy-willy, caught at the loose dust, hurling it like a naughty child at play. — Jean Brooks, The Opal Witch, p. 15, 1967
- — Patsy Adam-Smith, Folklore of the Australian Railwaymen, p. 25, 1969
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