Example sentences for: boomerang

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  • There are also words representative of other areas of Aboriginal life, such as boylya cleverman or wise elder, gnamma waterhole, kylie boomerang, miamia dwelling, monaych , originally the name of a cockatoo and by transference a police officer, nyoongar Aboriginal person, wagyl , the mythical rainbow serpent, wilgie , a red ochre used to paint the body on ceremonial occasions, and wongi , a word for an Aboriginal person, originally used around Kalgoorlie.

  • Weapons like the boomerang, the hielamon (a wooden shield), the nulla nulla (a club), the waddy (ditto), and the woomera (a spear-thrower), were identifiable to the earliest settlers as were also gin woman, myall , which distinguished a wild Aborigine from his civilised or tame brother, gibber a stone, and gunyah a dwelling.

  • In 1955, Chrysler adopted a double boomerang corporate logo to symbolize what it called "the forward look."

  • Bûmeran `boomerang' is the dumped lover who incessantly keeps returning, and morumon `mormon' is the active high-schooler with multiple girlfriends.

  • And there are local names for weapons, like weet-weet , a Victorian missile used both as a weapon and as a toy, -wirra , a South Australian club, and kylie , a West Australian boomerang.


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