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词组 boong
释义 boong
noun
an Aboriginal person; hence, any other dark-skinned person AUSTRALIA, 1924
From the Australian Aboriginal language Wemba, meaning “person”. Used disparagingly by white people. Now strongly taboo.
  • All the boongs’ll reckon yer off your onion. — John Wynnum, Tar Dust, p. 24, 1962
  • I’d rather a boong any day. — Wal Watkins, Race the Lazy River, p. 64, 1963
  • You have orders that Miss Zelmara and I should go and live with the boongs in the hills? — Ray Slattery, Mobbs’ Mob, p. 107, 1966
  • The boongs from the Catalina Base have got their airflow matresses laid out all over the Uni lawns. — Dorothy Hewett, The Chapel Perilous, p. 29, 1972
  • Bloke? He’s someone who’s male and Australian. Even a boong could be a bloke — Sandra Jobson, Blokes, p. 34, 1984
  • Don’t shake hands with no boongs — Phillip Gwynne, Deadly Unna?, p. 29, 1998
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