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lubra

(Australia, now racially offensive, ethnic slur) A female Aboriginal Australian.

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#1·Apr 27, 2026AUS

(Australia, now racially offensive, ethnic slur) A female Aboriginal Australian.

At about 100 yards distant I saw a large fire and it immediaterly occurred to me that his wife was dead and that the fire was the funeral pile of his deceased wife. I asked him where his lubra was and he said lubra logerna unee (dead in …
Origin: Derived from the word for wife or woman in the Nuenonne language, an Indigenous language of southern Tasmania. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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