boong

bʊŋ

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#1·1d ago

(Australia, slang, offensive, ethnic slur) An Australian Aboriginal person.

I heard Bruce tell one of the drinkers he'd bought a place in Queensland where you could ‘still call a Boong a Boong’.

Origin: Suggested sources are * , * dialectal brother * A New Guinea native language * An Aboriginal Australian language. Previously the word Binghi was used widely in similar fashion to the present-day use of the term Negro for peoples of African ancestry; see titles from [https://web.archive.org/web/20080227235135/http://www4.gu.edu.au/arts/ar17/search/redpage.txt this booklist] and also writings of Xavier Herbert (e.g. in Capricornia), for example. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#2·1d ago

(Australia, slang, dated) A native of New Guinea or Malaysia.

‘I quit the feds because I didn't want to be a showpiece boong cop.’

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