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Borak was a negative in the Victorian language Wathawurung and was one of a comparatively small number of words which the Aboriginal languages collectively contributed to an on-the-whole short-lived Australian pidgin.
In Melbourne, the Victorian languages, Wuywurung (spoken in three dialects on the site of Melbourne and to the north and west) and Wathawurung (spoken on the western side of Port Phillip Bay) were the first source of borrowings, though the surviving words number no more than sixteen.
Australian pidgin acquired a second negative, borak , used as an alternative to baal or in a figurative sense for humbug, nonsense, or rubbish, from Wathawurung, whence came also an exclamation merrygig well done and coolie , a derogatory term for a person who partnered an Aboriginal woman.