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sugar bagnoun Australian / NZ1A honeycomb or hive of the wild Australian stingless bee: he saw a kind-looking Aborigine, holding out to him the biggest sugar bag he had ever seen...- We been here walking round everywhere, Urandangi, cut em' that sugar bag.
- One Aborigine to whom I was talking said he would not marry a station half-caste, because “him all right to sleep alonga, but him no good catch 'em sugar-bag."
- We get 3 shillings a sugar bag. Sometimes get more.
1.1 [mass noun] (In Aboriginal English) honey from the wild Australian stingless bee: they must give me something in return, so they sent me along sugar bag...- It was very hard for the old Wirrigan to say no because everyone loves sugar bag.
- In the Victoria River district of Northern Territory, where sugar-bag is regarded as a special delicacy they use heavy wooden digging sticks to prise it out of termites' mounds.
- Both sexes would collect the highly prized "sugar bag".
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