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name
A locality in the Liverpool Plains council area, central New South Wales, Australia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
horse
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: Australian Aboriginal
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History
Uncertain. Suspected to be from an Australian language of coastal New South Wales, but the term was used by white settlers as a pidgin for communicating with the indigenous people and was rapidly adopted into their languages (preceding actual arrival of horses in some cases), making an origin difficult to ascertain. Each may well have believed they were using the other's word! (Reference: R. M. W. Dixon, Australian Aboriginal Words, Oxford University Press, 1990, →ISBN.)
