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Answer for the clue "Sick in Australia ", 7 letters:
chunder
Word definitions for chunder in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"vomit," 1950, Australian slang, of unknown origin.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context Australia New Zealand slang English) vomit. vb. (context Australia New Zealand slang English) To vomit. Etymology 2 vb. (context of a vehicle English) To rumble loudly, to roar.
Usage examples of chunder.
CHAPTER 2 A Barbarian from the Hills Chunder Shan, governor of Peshkhauri, laid down his golden pen and carefully scanned that which he had written on parchment that bore his official seal.
Looking at the man as he stood squarely, knife in fist and eyes glaring, Chunder Shan did not doubt that he was capable of it.
I recognised a casual acquaintance, a young Bengali law student, called Grish Chunder, whose father had sent him to England to become civilised.
Grish Chunder put a question in the vernacular, and the history went forward naturally in the tongue best suited for its telling.
Grish Chunder heard me, nodding from time to time, and then came up to my rooms, where I finished the tale.
The Lords of Life and Death were as cunning as Grish Chunder had hinted.
Lal Chunder flung at him a flood of rapid Hindustani, and he collapsed into shivering silence.
Lal Chunder, tightening his grip as he spoke, to the manifest discomfort of the man against the tree.
He turned to Lal Chunder, who had drawn close to Norah, and was contemplating his right hand, which had been nearly shaken off by the four from Billabong.
I recognised a casual acquaintance, a young Bengali law student, called Grish Chunder, whose father had sent him to England to become civilised.
Chunder was a young, fat, full-bodied Bengali, dressed with scrupulous care in frock coat, tall hat, light trousers, and tan gloves.
Grudgingly, the machine on emergency power finally chundered a print-out.
Behind the wall, the rock groaned and creaked, expelling these alien things in what, Rincewind thought, was a geological chunder.