Mullumbimby

  jang: mouth

  jingawahlu: greetings

  jinung: foot

  jinungalehla: standing

  jiraman: kangaroo

  jugi jugi: domestic chook

  juhm: cigarette/smoke

  julabai: piss

  kalwunybah: place of lyrebirds

  kanakas: Pacific Islander labourers (offensive)

  kibum: moon

  kipper: young, youthful (as in young initiates)

  koruhmburuhm: magpie

  kubbil: carpet snake

  mibun: wedgetail eagle

  mil: eye

  milbong: eye gone (blind)

  minjehleyni: laughing, happy

  minya: meat

  mooki: ghosts

  mulanyin: blue heron

  Murbah: short for Murwillumbah

  Murri/Murrie: Aboriginal person from most of southern Queensland

  muttika: motor car

  ning: quiet, silent

  Njuruyn: emu

  nurrung: the colour blue, here implying sky

  Old People: ancestors (widespread)

  onetime: a) soon, promptly or b) used for emphasis

  oodgeroo: paperbark tree

  pooning: echidna

  porky: porcupine

  talga: music

  taran: frog

  themfla: those people (Aboriginal English, widespread)

  ugari: shellfish, ‘pipi’

  warrigal: dingo or domestic dog (Aboriginal English, widespread)

  wirringin: winter

  womba: insane or very silly

  yanbillilla: walking or going home

  yarndi: marijuana

  yarraman: horse (Aboriginal English, widespread)

  yufla: people being addressed (Aboriginal English, widespread)

  yumba: home or house

  First published 2013 by University of Queensland Press

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  Copyright © 2013 Melissa Lucashenko

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