gunyah
Americannoun
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an Aboriginal hut or shelter.
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any crude bush hut or shelter.
noun
Etymology
Origin of gunyah
First recorded in 1790–1800, gunyah is from the Dharuk word gu-n'i
Example Sentences
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She was less satisfied when she had caught the horse and still must hear the mangled man; for he railed at her, from the gunyah she had built him, to the very end.
From The Shadow of a Man by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
Bill presently tied up the hanging door of the gunyah and mounted his horse.
From Finn The Wolfhound by Buxton, Robert Hugh
They were sitting in front of a loosely made bark gunyah, bare-footed, and with their shoes and well-worn stockings placed upon a scorching sheet of rock to dry.
From First in the Field A Story of New South Wales by Rahey, L.
A quarter of an hour after that, Finn lay down beside the ashes of the fire before the gunyah, his kill between his fore-legs.
From Finn The Wolfhound by Buxton, Robert Hugh
They decided that the Wolfhound might, after all, be of the wild kindred, since he evidently had no mind to face the owner of the gunyah by daylight.
From Finn The Wolfhound by Buxton, Robert Hugh
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