mundowie
/mʌnˈdaʊi
/noun Australian informal
1A footstep: we was runnin' too hard to hear anything but our mundowies...
- The bending of a few blades of grass, the fresh turning of the smallest stone, denoted "blackfellow mundowie", and when the imprint of a foot was caught in soft ground or sand it was at once pronounced as Charley's.
- You no make a light mundowie along with grass!
- We saw tracks about a mile from the hole, and though the big, splayed ‘mundowies’ meant nothing to me, Pebble could read them like a printed page.
1.1A foot: I froze me mundowies off, bringin' in the cows...
- The length of a 'foot' was standardised from the size of someone's 'mundowie' to 12 inches.
- Are you telling me to get my mundowies off the seat?
- He squatted, hams on heels, the toes of his mundowies gripping the ground.
Origin
Early 19th century: Australian pidgin, perhaps from Dharuk manuwi 'foot', or Awabakal manduwang 'foot'.