binghin.
Australian slang.
An Australian Aboriginal person. Recorded earlier in the general sense ‘brother’: e.g.
1831 R. Dawson Present State Austral. 221 I was received by them with the greatest cordiality, and greeted by the term bingeye, or brother.
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1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 15 Feb. 20 One good idea that far inlanders..learnt from Binghi.
1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 2 Aug. 21/4 Binghi's legend is some evidence that it existed there.
1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 13 Dec. 37/1 A binghi wife the Chinaman had.
1934 T. Wood Cobbers 34 The home for a floating population of Japanese, Chinese, Malays..binghis, half-castes and whites.
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