Aboriginal Words

baba

crazy (touched)

badgee

sulky, cross

bandogera

wild turkey

bardi

grub (witchetty grub)

bucklegarro

man-making (circumcision) ceremony.

buckunma

come quickly

bulya

poison

bungarra

goanna

coobinju

baby

cooboo

baby

coolamon

wooden receptacle for food and babies

coolardie

bull-roarer

coolwenda

nor’-west butcher-bird

coolyah

kind of wild sweet potato

cowa-cowa

fool

eeh-mm

yes

gina-gina

dress

jinki

spirit

kala miah

wood-heap

koodgeeda

snake

kylie

a light boomerang.

miah

screen, shelter.

milli-milli

letter-stick.

minga

ant.

minnerichi

shrub with hard wood.

moppin, movin

magic, a charm.

moppin-garra, movin-garra

magician.

mulba

young man.

nabi

you, or you fellows.

namery

reward (tobacco usually).

namma hole

native water-hole.

narlu

evil spirit.

noova, nuba

(potential husband) lover.

nydee

low-growing shrub.

punti

wild cassia.

tani wali

come quickly.

tarcodee

three.

tarloo

totem, kobong.

tuckerdoo

sweet stuff.

uloo

native camp.

wallabee

young man.

wiah

no.

winni-carra, winning-arra

whirlwind.

wongi

applied to the tribes generally.

wongie

a yarn.

wongo

shelter (hut of bark and boughs).

wytaliba

the fire is all burnt out.

yienda

you.

yukki

exclamation of surprise or fear.