quandongn.

Brit.

/ˈkwɒndɒŋ/, U.S.

/ˈkwɑnˌdɑŋ/,

/ˈkwɔnˌdɔŋ/, Australian English

/ˈkwɔndɔŋ/

Forms: 1800s– quandang, 1800s– quandong, 1800s– quantong, 1800s– quondong, 1900s– quongdong. N.E.D. (1902) also records a form quandung.

Origin: A borrowing from Wiradhuri. Etymon: Wiradhuri guwandhaaŋ.

Etymology: < Wiradhuri (central New South Wales region) guwandhaaŋ.In sense 2 apparently a transferred use, probably with allusion to the contrast between the attractive exterior of the fruit and the hard nut inside it.

a. A shrub or small tree native to southern Australia, Santalum acuminatum (family Santalaceae), bearing racemes of small greenish-white flowers and edible bright red fruit; the fruit of this; also called native peach. Also: (more fully quandong nut) the hard stone of this fruit, formerly used to make jewellery; the edible kernel of this. Frequently attributive.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [adjective]

softwood1539

citrean1616

pepperidge1689

purple heart1769

narra1779

leafy1810

saffraan1819

quandong1836

padauk1839

tamanu1839

titoki1842

til1858

odum1887

sapele1904

broad-leaved1905

peroba1920

ocote1926

pyinkado1934

ponderosa1937

ahuehuete1948

Mansonia1958

obeche1958

podo1961

black-gum1969

the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > other fruits > [noun]

tamarind1539

zizypha1546

guava1555

tuna1555

turpentine1562

mango1582

mammee1587

durian1588

lychee1588

sapota1589

fritter1591

mangosteen1598

custard apple1648

longan1655

mammee sapota1657

mammee apple1683

breadfruit1697

coco-plum1699

rambutan1707

pawpaw1709

locust bean1731

sapodilla1750

cherimoya1758

wild lime1767

Otaheite apple1777

narra1779

langsat1783

rose apple1790

cinnamon apple1796

sapota plum1797

bhindi1809

salak1820

gingerbread plum1824

geebung1827

loquat1829

sapodilla plum1830

sage-apple1832

kangaroo-apple1834

karaka-fruit1834

quandong1836

mombin1837

terap1839

zapote1842

tamarind plum1846

prairie pea1848

Barbados-cherry1858

kei-apple1859

Natal plum1859

bullock's heart1866

guava-apple1866

Sierra Leone peach1866

Turkey fig1866

marula1877

scarlet banana1885

Suriname cherry1895

feijoa1898

pear apple1898

ume1918

pepino1922

Chinese gooseberry1925

num-num1926

acerola1954

the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > berry > [noun] > other berries

hedge-berry1607

elderberry1625

ramble-berry1658

cloudberry1743

Indian pear1796

bluet1812

squawberry1829

pigface1830

wax-berry1835

quandong1836

strawberry guava1901

bead-berry1923

squash-berry1935

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > other berries

blueberry1594

hedge-berry1607

elderberry1625

huckleberry1670

bearberry1677

cloudberry1743

baked apple1750

pembina1760

service1785

honeyberry1787

nub-berry1794

bluet1812

noop1817

squawberry1829

quandong1836

miro1838

strawberry guava1901

squash-berry1935

tayberry1977

tummelberry1984

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > other plants producing edible berries

shallon1806

mackaw bush1814

susumber1814

salal1825

quandong1836

tangle1857

turkey-berry1858

quandong1862

manatoka1897

riberry1988

1836 T. L. Mitchell Three Exped. Eastern Austral. 19 June (1838) II. 135 In all these scrubs on the Murray the Fusanus acuminatus is common, and produces the quandang nut.

1850 J. B. Clutterbuck Port Phillip II. 30 The indigenous Quandang..is the only really palatable fruit that grows in the wilds of Port Phillip.

1893 Geogr. Jrnl. 1 553 The country..chiefly consists of sandhills and sandy flats, coveed with mallee, mulga, quondong, sage bush..and various shrubs.

1916 E. H. S. Bailey Source, Chem. & Use of Food Products xiii. 339 There are several nuts of less importance grown in various parts of the world. Among these may be mentioned..the quandang nut of Australia.

1945 Coast to Coast 1944 88 Give me your quandong stones and your two tortoise-shells.

1953 M. E. Patchett in I. Bevan Sunburnt Country ii. iv. 117 Here are quandong trees with their thick, leathery leaves and red globes of fruit that make delicious jams and jellies.

1993 New Scientist 2 Oct. 11/3 Others, such as the quandong, an attractive fruit from central Australia, have commercial potential.

b. More fully bitter quandong. The related shrub S. murrayanum; the bitter fruit of this.

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shallon1806

mackaw bush1814

susumber1814

salal1825

quandong1836

tangle1857

turkey-berry1858

quandong1862

manatoka1897

riberry1988

1862 R. Henning Let. 2 Nov. (1966) 114 He [sc. an emu] also eats quandongs, a sort of wild plum that grows in the bush. They look very like the common black plums you preserve, but they are sour and bitter and harsh to an untold degree.

1878 R. B. Smyth Aborigines Victoria II. 172 Bitter quandong-tree—Gutchu. Quandong-tree—Bitchigal.

1933 D. Macdonald Brooks of Morning 46 The trained eye of a Mallee bushman picks out from a distance the ‘ming’ or bitter quandong, growing as a rule upon the lighter soils.

1975 A. B. Cribb & J. W. Cribb Wild Food in Austral. 140 Bitter quandong, as the name suggests, has bitter and inedible fruit.

c. More fully blue quandong, white quandong. A large rainforest tree of north-eastern Australia, Elaeocarpus grandis (family Elaeocarpaceae); the edible blue fruit (a drupe) of this. Also: the timber of this tree.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > Australasian

tallow-tree1704

rata1773

rosewood1779

red mahogany1798

ironbark1799

wild orange1802

red gum1803

rewarewa1817

red cedar1818

black-butted gum1820

Huon pine1820

miro1820

oak1821

horoeka1831

hinau1832

maire1832

totara1832

blackbutt1833

marri1833

raspberry jam tree1833

kohekohe1835

puriri1835

tawa1839

hickory1840

whau1840

pukatea1841

titoki1842

butterbush1843

iron gum1844

York gum1846

mangeao1848

myall1848

ironheart1859

lilly-pilly1860

belah1862

flindosa1862

jarrah1866

silky oak1866

teak of New South Wales1866

Tolosa-wood1866

turmeric-tree1866

walking-stick palm1869

tooart1870

queenwood1873

tarairi1873

boree1878

yate1880

axe-breaker1884

bangalay1884

coachwood1884

cudgerie1884

feather-wood1884

forest mahogany1884

maiden's blush1884

swamp mahogany1884

tallow-wood1884

teak of New Zealand1884

wandoo1884

heartwood1885

ivorywood1887

Jimmy Low1887

Burdekin plum1889

corkwood1889

pigeon-berry ash1889

red beech1889

silver beech1889

turnip-wood1891

black bean1895

red bean1895

pinkwood1898

poplar1898

rose mahogany1898

quandong1908

lancewood1910

New Zealand honeysuckle1910

Queensland walnut1919

mahogany gum1944

Australian mahogany1948

1908 E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber i. i. 22 The shiny blue quandong (Elæocarpus grandis), misleading and insipid.

1928 M. E. Fullerton Austral. Bush 107 For ornamental work these states have a remarkable variety from which to draw; such as..white quandong, coachwood.

1965 Austral. Encycl. III. 365/1 E. grandis (the blue, white, or silver quandong)..has large blue drupes known to children as blue figs, and sometimes, but incorrectly, as quandongs.

1981 P. Carey Bliss vi. 276 The quandong branch..now made the curved banister of the stair.

2003 Outside Feb. 84/2 The cassowary evolved amid the Wet Tropics, thriving on figs, quandongs, and other distinctive fruits.

2. Australian slang. A person who deceives, exploits, or imposes on others (see also quot. 1967). Now rare.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > a charlatan, fraudster > [noun]

shondc725

faitoura1340

fob1393

trumper?c1450

feature14..

chuffera1500

prowler1519

truphane1568

cozener1575

cogger1580

pretender1583

impostor1586

mountebank1589

sycophant?1589

foolmonger1593

affronter1598

assumer1600

knight (also lord, man, etc.) of gingerbread1602

pettifogger1602

budgeter1603

quacksalver1611

empiric1614

putter-off?1615

quack1638

stafador1638

saltimbanco1646

adventurer1648

fourbe1668

shammer1677

imposer1678

charlatana1680

sham1683

cheat1687

hocus1692

gull1699

shamster1716

coal-blower1720

humbugger1752

gagger1781

fudge1794

humbug1804

potwalloper1820

twister1834

jackleg1844

fraud1850

bunyip1852

empiricist1854

Bayswater Captain1880

bluffer1888

putter-down1906

quandong1939

1939 K. Tennant Foveaux 311 In this crowd of low heels, quandongs and ripperty men, she looked at her ease and yet not of them.

1967 King's Cross Whisper (Sydney) No. 38. 10/3 Quandong, a girl who makes a practice of remaining virtuous after being wined and dined.

1973 F. Huelin Keep Moving 178 Quandong, hobo who bludges or imposes on another.

1985 P. Carey Illywhacker 246 ‘What's an illywhacker?’..‘A spieler..a trickster. A quandong. A ripperty man. A con-man.’

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	quandong
释义	quandongn. Brit. /ˈkwɒndɒŋ/, U.S. /ˈkwɑnˌdɑŋ/, /ˈkwɔnˌdɔŋ/, Australian English /ˈkwɔndɔŋ/ Forms: 1800s– quandang, 1800s– quandong, 1800s– quantong, 1800s– quondong, 1900s– quongdong. N.E.D. (1902) also records a form quandung. Origin: A borrowing from Wiradhuri. Etymon: Wiradhuri guwandhaaŋ. Etymology: < Wiradhuri (central New South Wales region) guwandhaaŋ.In sense 2 apparently a transferred use, probably with allusion to the contrast between the attractive exterior of the fruit and the hard nut inside it. 1. a. A shrub or small tree native to southern Australia, Santalum acuminatum (family Santalaceae), bearing racemes of small greenish-white flowers and edible bright red fruit; the fruit of this; also called native peach. Also: (more fully quandong nut) the hard stone of this fruit, formerly used to make jewellery; the edible kernel of this. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [adjective] softwood1539 citrean1616 pepperidge1689 purple heart1769 narra1779 leafy1810 saffraan1819 quandong1836 padauk1839 tamanu1839 titoki1842 til1858 odum1887 sapele1904 broad-leaved1905 peroba1920 ocote1926 pyinkado1934 ponderosa1937 ahuehuete1948 Mansonia1958 obeche1958 podo1961 black-gum1969 the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > other fruits > [noun] tamarind1539 zizypha1546 guava1555 tuna1555 turpentine1562 mango1582 mammee1587 durian1588 lychee1588 sapota1589 fritter1591 mangosteen1598 custard apple1648 longan1655 mammee sapota1657 mammee apple1683 breadfruit1697 coco-plum1699 rambutan1707 pawpaw1709 locust bean1731 sapodilla1750 cherimoya1758 wild lime1767 Otaheite apple1777 narra1779 langsat1783 rose apple1790 cinnamon apple1796 sapota plum1797 bhindi1809 salak1820 gingerbread plum1824 geebung1827 loquat1829 sapodilla plum1830 sage-apple1832 kangaroo-apple1834 karaka-fruit1834 quandong1836 mombin1837 terap1839 zapote1842 tamarind plum1846 prairie pea1848 Barbados-cherry1858 kei-apple1859 Natal plum1859 bullock's heart1866 guava-apple1866 Sierra Leone peach1866 Turkey fig1866 marula1877 scarlet banana1885 Suriname cherry1895 feijoa1898 pear apple1898 ume1918 pepino1922 Chinese gooseberry1925 num-num1926 acerola1954 the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > berry > [noun] > other berries hedge-berry1607 elderberry1625 ramble-berry1658 cloudberry1743 Indian pear1796 bluet1812 squawberry1829 pigface1830 wax-berry1835 quandong1836 strawberry guava1901 bead-berry1923 squash-berry1935 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > other berries blueberry1594 hedge-berry1607 elderberry1625 huckleberry1670 bearberry1677 cloudberry1743 baked apple1750 pembina1760 service1785 honeyberry1787 nub-berry1794 bluet1812 noop1817 squawberry1829 quandong1836 miro1838 strawberry guava1901 squash-berry1935 tayberry1977 tummelberry1984 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > other plants producing edible berries shallon1806 mackaw bush1814 susumber1814 salal1825 quandong1836 tangle1857 turkey-berry1858 quandong1862 manatoka1897 riberry1988 1836 T. L. Mitchell Three Exped. Eastern Austral. 19 June (1838) II. 135 In all these scrubs on the Murray the Fusanus acuminatus is common, and produces the quandang nut. 1850 J. B. Clutterbuck Port Phillip II. 30 The indigenous Quandang..is the only really palatable fruit that grows in the wilds of Port Phillip. 1893 Geogr. Jrnl. 1 553 The country..chiefly consists of sandhills and sandy flats, coveed with mallee, mulga, quondong, sage bush..and various shrubs. 1916 E. H. S. Bailey Source, Chem. & Use of Food Products xiii. 339 There are several nuts of less importance grown in various parts of the world. Among these may be mentioned..the quandang nut of Australia. 1945 Coast to Coast 1944 88 Give me your quandong stones and your two tortoise-shells. 1953 M. E. Patchett in I. Bevan Sunburnt Country ii. iv. 117 Here are quandong trees with their thick, leathery leaves and red globes of fruit that make delicious jams and jellies. 1993 New Scientist 2 Oct. 11/3 Others, such as the quandong, an attractive fruit from central Australia, have commercial potential. b. More fully bitter quandong. The related shrub S. murrayanum; the bitter fruit of this. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > other plants producing edible berries shallon1806 mackaw bush1814 susumber1814 salal1825 quandong1836 tangle1857 turkey-berry1858 quandong1862 manatoka1897 riberry1988 1862 R. Henning Let. 2 Nov. (1966) 114 He [sc. an emu] also eats quandongs, a sort of wild plum that grows in the bush. They look very like the common black plums you preserve, but they are sour and bitter and harsh to an untold degree. 1878 R. B. Smyth Aborigines Victoria II. 172 Bitter quandong-tree—Gutchu. Quandong-tree—Bitchigal. 1933 D. Macdonald Brooks of Morning 46 The trained eye of a Mallee bushman picks out from a distance the ‘ming’ or bitter quandong, growing as a rule upon the lighter soils. 1975 A. B. Cribb & J. W. Cribb Wild Food in Austral. 140 Bitter quandong, as the name suggests, has bitter and inedible fruit. c. More fully blue quandong, white quandong. A large rainforest tree of north-eastern Australia, Elaeocarpus grandis (family Elaeocarpaceae); the edible blue fruit (a drupe) of this. Also: the timber of this tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > Australasian tallow-tree1704 rata1773 rosewood1779 red mahogany1798 ironbark1799 wild orange1802 red gum1803 rewarewa1817 red cedar1818 black-butted gum1820 Huon pine1820 miro1820 oak1821 horoeka1831 hinau1832 maire1832 totara1832 blackbutt1833 marri1833 raspberry jam tree1833 kohekohe1835 puriri1835 tawa1839 hickory1840 whau1840 pukatea1841 titoki1842 butterbush1843 iron gum1844 York gum1846 mangeao1848 myall1848 ironheart1859 lilly-pilly1860 belah1862 flindosa1862 jarrah1866 silky oak1866 teak of New South Wales1866 Tolosa-wood1866 turmeric-tree1866 walking-stick palm1869 tooart1870 queenwood1873 tarairi1873 boree1878 yate1880 axe-breaker1884 bangalay1884 coachwood1884 cudgerie1884 feather-wood1884 forest mahogany1884 maiden's blush1884 swamp mahogany1884 tallow-wood1884 teak of New Zealand1884 wandoo1884 heartwood1885 ivorywood1887 Jimmy Low1887 Burdekin plum1889 corkwood1889 pigeon-berry ash1889 red beech1889 silver beech1889 turnip-wood1891 black bean1895 red bean1895 pinkwood1898 poplar1898 rose mahogany1898 quandong1908 lancewood1910 New Zealand honeysuckle1910 Queensland walnut1919 mahogany gum1944 Australian mahogany1948 1908 E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber i. i. 22 The shiny blue quandong (Elæocarpus grandis), misleading and insipid. 1928 M. E. Fullerton Austral. Bush 107 For ornamental work these states have a remarkable variety from which to draw; such as..white quandong, coachwood. 1965 Austral. Encycl. III. 365/1 E. grandis (the blue, white, or silver quandong)..has large blue drupes known to children as blue figs, and sometimes, but incorrectly, as quandongs. 1981 P. Carey Bliss vi. 276 The quandong branch..now made the curved banister of the stair. 2003 Outside Feb. 84/2 The cassowary evolved amid the Wet Tropics, thriving on figs, quandongs, and other distinctive fruits. 2. Australian slang. A person who deceives, exploits, or imposes on others (see also quot. 1967). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > a charlatan, fraudster > [noun] shondc725 faitoura1340 fob1393 trumper?c1450 feature14.. chuffera1500 prowler1519 truphane1568 cozener1575 cogger1580 pretender1583 impostor1586 mountebank1589 sycophant?1589 foolmonger1593 affronter1598 assumer1600 knight (also lord, man, etc.) of gingerbread1602 pettifogger1602 budgeter1603 quacksalver1611 empiric1614 putter-off?1615 quack1638 stafador1638 saltimbanco1646 adventurer1648 fourbe1668 shammer1677 imposer1678 charlatana1680 sham1683 cheat1687 hocus1692 gull1699 shamster1716 coal-blower1720 humbugger1752 gagger1781 fudge1794 humbug1804 potwalloper1820 twister1834 jackleg1844 fraud1850 bunyip1852 empiricist1854 Bayswater Captain1880 bluffer1888 putter-down1906 quandong1939 1939 K. Tennant Foveaux 311 In this crowd of low heels, quandongs and ripperty men, she looked at her ease and yet not of them. 1967 King's Cross Whisper (Sydney) No. 38. 10/3 Quandong, a girl who makes a practice of remaining virtuous after being wined and dined. 1973 F. Huelin Keep Moving 178 Quandong, hobo who bludges or imposes on another. 1985 P. Carey Illywhacker 246 ‘What's an illywhacker?’..‘A spieler..a trickster. A quandong. A ripperty man. A con-man.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1836
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