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Their swept-wing and delta-wing designs were sharp yet curvy--a quality that was abstracted into the parabolic, boomerang shapes that started to turn up on objects such as ballpoint pens and surfaces such as Formica.
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.
The settlers quickly discovered that knowledge of Dharuk (the Aboriginal language spoken in Sydney) was of no help to them in communicating with the local Aborigines—unless the Aborigines had learned words from the settlers in the belief that they were English, as indeed happened with some pidgin terms and, in the west, with boomerang .
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.
To let fly with his caustic wit risks a boomerang effect.