Example sentences for: humpy

How can you use “humpy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • This was added to as it travelled north and west by words like yabber talk, based on the root ya -, found in Wiradhuri and other languages), the Yagara (Brisbane) words bung dead, humpy dwelling, and yacka work (as noun and verb), and, particularly, by names for flora and fauna the travellers now recognized as being commonly found in the inland.

  • Gunyah , the Dharuk word for dwelling, is matched by the Melburnian quamby , a verb meaning lie down, camp, and also a noun meaning shelter, by the Brisbane humpy , the Adelaide wurley , and the Perth mia mia .

  • So the Aboriginal equivalent of the Creation is Dreamtime , itself a translation of alcheringa (an Aranda word), bark hut is preferred to gunyah or humpy, country to the Kamilaroi towri , and walkabout to the Nyungar pink-eye .


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