boong
Meaning
Noun
- An Australian aboriginal.
- A native of New Guinea or Malaysia.
Related
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Origin
- Suggested sources are
- Malay bung ("brother"),
- Indonesian dialectal bung
- A New Guinea native language
- An Aboriginal Australian language.
- Previously the word Binghi was used widely in similar fashion to the present-day use of the term Negro for peoples of African ancestry; see titles from and also writings of Xavier Herbert (e.g. in Capricornia), for example.
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