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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And with this and some mallee-branches she made a gunyah over him, though he said it stifled him, and complained bitterly to the end.
From The Shadow of a Man by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
Then he wiped it carefully on his towel, and hung it up inside the gunyah.
From Finn The Wolfhound by Buxton, Robert Hugh
Get me that rope that's slung over the gunyah.
From Stingaree by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
He don’t want no clothes nor no house, only a hut, as he makes out of a few bits o’ bark and calls a gunyah, perhaps only a mia-mia.”
From First in the Field A Story of New South Wales by Rahey, L.
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)
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