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Australian monster rabbit, gutted, very cheap
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bunyip
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The Bunyip is a weekly newspaper originally published and printed in Gawler, South Australia , covering the Barossa, Light, Playford and Adelaide Plains regions. Since 2003 it has been a member of the Taylor Group of publications, printed in Renmark along ...
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n. 1 (context Australia English) A mythical Australian monster, said to inhabit swamps and lagoons. 2 (context Australia slang obsolete English) An imposter or con-man.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1848, fabulous swamp-dwelling animal (supposedly inspired by fossil bones), from an Australian aborigine language.
Usage examples of bunyip.
Shouting to be heard above the moan of the bullroarer and the wailing of the bunyip, he held high a solid-gold, intricately inscribed kazoo.
The Bunyip tore through the swamp, over the sandy patch where the prickly hakeas grew and the leptospermums and the banksias were in flower, and pretty blooms like the Actinotus and Thysonotus and Dillwynia and Tetratheca were glowing gaily.
The bunyip was a freshwater creature that was at first glance very sharklike in appearance, but the shaggy black hair that covered its body and the long, flowing mane set it apart.
We suspected that they had headed for the great Debil-devil Waterhole, where, it was said, the Bunyip appeared: that mysterious animal, or devil, or thing, which nobody has ever seen, but many have pretended to see.
He had often said he had seen a Bunyip, and that he'd bring one home some day, but no one took him seriously.
Bingong, being a native, must naturally have a constitutional fear of the Debil-debil, as the Bunyip is often called.
As I came near the group I heard my wife say to Billy, who looked sadly haggard and ill, that she was sure he would have got the Bunyip if it hadn't been for the terrible drought.
But my young brother was Third Reaction Drive Engineer of the old Bunyip when she went missing.