Bananalandn.
A colloquial Australian name for Queensland.
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Sunshine State1887
Bananaland1898
Kanakaland1945
1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. Banana-land, slang name for Queensland, where bananas grow in abundance. Bananalander, slang for a Queenslander.
1901 Westm. Gaz. 2 Apr. 1/3 The Bananaland capital.
1901 Daily Chron. 4 Apr. 5/1 [He] was born in ‘Bananaland’.
1901 Daily Chron. 18 Nov. 5/1 The Bananaland statesman.
1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 11 Jan. 10 Bananaland has had a fruit marketing organisation for years.
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Baˈnanalander n.
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bushboya1834
Melbournite1838
Melburnian1838
bushman1846
Vandemonian1852
scrubber1859
Queenslander1860
Victorian1862
Sydneysider1865
Centralian1875
Waler1880
Territorian1882
mutton-bird1892
bushy1896
sand-groper1896
tothersider1896
crow-eater1899
Bananalander1900
outbacker1900
Tassie1905
groper1924
Tasmanian1934
mutton-bird eater1941
Top-Ender1941
Kanakalander1945
1900 Daily News 3 July 3/2 He's a brave Bananalander.
1934 T. Wood Cobbers 144 So let this mob of Cornstalks, Croweaters, Sandgropers, and Bananalanders go on yapping, say Victorians.
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