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单词 pituri
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piturin.

Brit. /ˈpɪtjʊri/, /ˈpɪtʃəri/, U.S. /ˈpɪtʃəri/, Australian English /ˈpɪtʃəri/
Forms: 1800s pidgery, 1800s pitcherie, 1800s pitcherry, 1800s pitury, 1800s– pitchery, 1800s– pituri, 1900s– pitcheri, 1900s– pitchiri, 1900s– pitchuri, 1900s– pitchurie, 1900s– pitery, 1900s– pitjari, 1900s– pitjeri, 1900s– pitjuri.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Yandruwandha. Partly a borrowing from Pitta-pitta. Etymons: Yandruwandha bijirri; Pitta-pitta pijiri.
Etymology: < Yandruwandha (Cooper's Creek region) bijirri and its etymon Pitta-Pitta pijiri.Compare the following early use of the Yandruwandha word in English:1861 Burke & Wills Exploring Exped. 28 They gave us some stuff they call bedgery, or pedgery. It has a highly intoxicating effect when chewed even in small quantities. It appears to be the dried stems and leaves of some shrub. N.E.D. (1907) gives the pronunciation (pi·tiŭri) /ˈpɪtjʊərɪ/.
Australian.
The prepared leaves of a Central Australian shrub, Duboisia hopwoodii (family Solanaceae), containing nornicotine and traditionally chewed by Aboriginal people as a stimulant or crushed and placed in waterholes to stun food animals; (also) the shrub itself, or any of several related plants with similar properties.
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1861 Burke & Wills Exploring Exped. 13 I distributed the few remaining presents, and they gave in return some chewed pitchery and nardoo balls.
1863 Proc. Royal Soc. 1862–3 12 1Pitcherry’, a narcotic plant brought by King, the explorer, from the interior of Australia, where it is used by the natives to produce intoxication.
1883 F. M. Bailey Synopsis Queensland Flora 350 Pitury of the natives..chewed by the natives as the white man does the tobacco.
1889 C. Lumholtz Among Cannibals (1890) 49 Pituri is highly valued as a stimulant.
1915 Bulletin (Sydney) 4 Feb. 13/3 Amongst the S. Australian and West Queensland aboriginals ‘pitchery’, whether to chew or smoke, is a big-fella luxury.
1931 I. L. Idriess Lasseter's Last Ride (1933) xvii. 137 Old Warts took from behind his ear a half-chewed plug of pituri, made from the pituri shrub.
1941 I. L. Idriess Great Boomerang xiv. 102 Finally one by one the pituri-chewers become stupefied, rolling over and sleeping through day and night.
1964 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 25 Oct. 3/1 We tossed our swags into the station land rover..for a two-day run from the station out to Allawonga Springs and the pituri country.
1967 New Scientist 27 Apr. 226/1 Even the primitive Australian Aborigine has found a pleasurable weed—pitery—which contains nornicotine.
1980 B. Scott Darkness under Hills 84 ‘Chew on these until you are ready to leave your body,’ he instructed. ‘They are the pituri plant from the far-off fringe of the desert.’
2000 Guardian 1 July (Saturday section) 1/5 He gave me pituri, native tobacco, to chew so I wouldn't feel tired.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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