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boong.

An Australian Aboriginal person.

5 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/bʊŋ/
  1. An Australian Aboriginal person.

    Australia · ethnic · offensive · slang · slur
  2. A native of New Guinea or Malaysia.

    Australia · dated · slang
Where this word comes from

Suggested sources are * Malay bung (“brother”), * Indonesian dialectal bung (“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 this booklist and also writings of Xavier Herbert (e.g. in Capricornia), for example.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.