单词 | boong |
释义 | boongn. Australian slang (offensive). An Australian Aboriginal person or a native of New Guinea; also, any non-white person. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > non-white person > [noun] person of colour1786 buck1800 coloured1832 Indiano1836 nigger1843 skepsel1844 native1846 non-white1864 fuzzy1890 fuzzy-wuzzy1892 monk1903 non-European1906 golliwog1916 wog1921 non-European1925 gook1935 boong1941 jungle bunny1966 Indio1969 the world > people > ethnicities > New Zealand and Australian indigenous peoples > Australian Aboriginal peoples > [noun] New Hollander1697 Australian1815 blackfellow1827 aboriginal1828 Jacky Jacky1845 nigger1845 Australoid1869 murri1884 Abo1908 binghi1933 boong1941 1941 K. Tennant Battlers ix. 110 Those boangs are all too matey with the police. 1943 S. J. Baker Dict. Austral. Slang (ed. 3) 13 Boong, an aboriginal; a native of New Guinea. 1945 R. J. Oakes in Coast to Coast 1944 99 He had six wounded men..and four boongs to help him. 1950 ‘N. Shute’ Town like Alice 75 ‘I thought you were a lot of boongs,’ he said. ‘You say you're English.’ 1962 Economist 10 Nov. 577/1 In Australian eyes, Indonesia was a nation of poor struggling ‘boongs’ (a slang word which in its narrowest sense is applied to the natives of New Guinea). 1969 Times 1 Apr. p. ii/5 He is trying to lead Australians away from what he calls the ‘poor old bloody boong’ mentality. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1941 |
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