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单词 Oodnagalahbi
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Definition of Oodnagalahbi in English:

Oodnagalahbi

(also Oodnagalahby, Oodnagalahbie)
nounˌuːdnəɡəˈlɑːbi
Australian derogatory
  • An imaginary place, extremely remote and supposedly backward.

    I drove through Kickastickalong, then turned left at Oodnagalahbi
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Their great-grandfather changed the first light bulb in Oodnagalahbi in 1923.
    • Oodnagalahbi has been twinned with Oodnadatta: a small town in Western Australia.
    • I drove through sleeping Buggorup, and then turned west towards Oodnagalahbi and the sea.
    • All this would probably have happened even if Kennett had saved the little one-roomed school in Oodnagalahbi North.
    • When we're told that we'll need a cut lunch and a waterbag to get to Oodnagalahby, we get exactly the right impression: it's a long way off.
    • Greetings to the folk in Woop woop from the folks in Oodnagalahbi.
    • Twenty years ago, Oodnagalahbi was but a collection of fishermen's shacks and a small hotel.
    • Even phone cards got tricky up in the hills—you pull up at some place the equivalent of " oodnagalahby", and the only phone is a company your card doesn't work with.
    • I and fellow scientists from The University of Oodnagalahbi have determined that at the present rate of atmospheric heating, life as we know it on the planet will cease at 1.27pm on 23 of January 2023.
    • Bullamakanka belongs on the same imaginary map as 'Oodnagalahbi', and 'Woop Woop'.

Origin

1960s: from the name of Oodnadatta (a small, remote town in South Australia) + galah (in the sense 'stupid person') + bi.

 
 
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