gympie
- a tall tree with stinging hairs on its leaves
- a hammer
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Word Origin for gympie
C19: from a native Australian language
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Historical Examples of gympie
We mean comparatively so, as those at Gympie are also of great promise.
Under the Southern CrossMaturin M. Ballou
Gympie, a gold-mining town a hundred miles north, has about the same number of inhabitants.
Under the Southern CrossMaturin M. Ballou
He was a hardworking miner in a gold claim at Gympie, one of the most permanent reefing fields in Queensland.
Two Years Among the Savages of New Guinea.W. D. Pitcairn
He is a lucky digger from Gympie, and came aboard at Brisbane, and has kept the ship in an uproar ever since.
Tom GerrardLouis Becke
Since the discovery of the Gympie goldfield there has been no cessation in the progress of mining in Queensland.
Our First Half-CenturyGovernment of Queensland