gunyah

American  

[guhn-yuh] / ˈgʌn yə /

noun

Australian.

1. an Aboriginal hut or shelter.

2. any crude bush hut or shelter.

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gunyah British  

/ ˈɡʌnjə /

noun

1. a bush hut or shelter

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Etymology

Origin of gunyah

First recorded in 1790–1800, gunyah is from the Dharuk word gu-n'i

Example Sentences

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)

The movements of these dingoes, once they reached within a couple of miles of Bill's gunyah, would have interested any student of the wild.

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

I have made myself a bark gunyah, and for the present that is my home, Nic.”

From First in the Field A Story of New South Wales by Rahey, L.

P. J. Holdsworth, `Station, Hunting': "hunger clung Beneath the bough-piled gunyah."

From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Morris, Edward Ellis