# More Australian Legendary Tales/Glossary

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​ Glossary
* Bahloo, moon (masculine).
* Bargie, grandmother.
* Beereeun, a small grey lizard.
* Berai Berai, The Boys (Orion's sword and belt).
* Bibbil, shiny-leaved box-tree.
* Biggoon, water-rat.
* Bilber, a large rat.
* Bindeah, prickle or thorn.
* Bingahwingul, needle-bush, a flowering shrub with roots from which water can be drained.
* Binguie, wooden vessel for holding water.
* Birrahgnooloo, woman's name (= face like a hatchet-handle)
* Bohrah, kangaroo.
* Boolee, whirlwind.
* Boondee, club-headed weapon.
* Boorah, larger borah ring.
* Borah or Boorah, sacred tribal initiation rites.
* Boulka, leak.
* Brälgah, native companion, large crane.
* Bubahlarmay, game played by jumping into the water with a splash.
* Bubbur, giant brown and yellow snake.
* Budta, rosewood-tree.
* Budtah, salt.
* Bullah Bullah, butterflies.
* Bullai bullai, green parrot.
* Bullimah, Byamee's camp (native Elysium).
* Bullimehdeehmundi, south-east.
* Bungun Bunguu, frog.
* Bunna, cannibal.
* Byamee, big man (Creator, Culture hero).
* Comebee, bag. ​
* Comebeegeeboondarnghealdah, grey moth.
* Comeboo, tomahawk.
* Coolah, tree with water-holding roots
* Corroboree, tribal dance.
* Daen, black fellow.
* Daendeeghindamaylännah, Venus the laughing star. Lit., "A laughing man."
* Dardurr, shelter made of bark.
* Dayoorl, magical speaking stone
* Deenyi, iron bark.
* Deereeree, Willy wagtail.
* Dheal, sacred tree.
* Dindee, pointed stick
* Dinewan, emu.
* Dinjerrah, west
* Dooloomai, thunder.
* Doongairah, lightning
* Doowee, dream-spirit.
* Dourandouran, north wind
* Dulloorah, small grey birds.
* Dullaymullaylunnah, feud, vendetta.
* Dumerh, brown pigeon.
* Durrie, bread made from grass seed.
* Durroon, the night heron.
* Eehu, rain.
* Eer-dher, mirage.
* Euahlayi, language of Narrin blacks.
* Euloowirree, rainbow.
* Eurah, a drooping shrub.
* Gahreemay, camp.
* Garahgah, crane.
* Gayanday, man's name for voice of borah spirit.
* Gayardaree, platypus.
* Gheeger Gheeger, the cold west wind.
* Gidya, tree of acacia species, which gives forth a sickening smell in damp weather, or if in bloom.
* Girrahween, place of flowers.
* Goodoo, codfish.
* Goolabah, grey-leaved box-tree.
* Goolahyool, water-holding tree.
* Goolayahlee, pelican.
* Goolmai, death dirge
* Goombeelgah, bark canoe.
* Goomblegubbon, turkey or bustard of the plains.
* Goonagullah, the sky.
* Goonbean, specks on the leaves of the bibbil
* Gooweera, small stick or bone, possessing magical death-dealing power.
* Gougourgahgah, laughing jackass.
* Gubbah, good.
* Gubbee, man's clan name.
* Gubberah, sacred wonder-working stone.
* Guineeboo, redbreast. ​
* Gummarl, place where some one has died.
* Gundooee, solitary emu.
* Gunyahnoo, south-east wind.
* Gurburreh, north.
* Illahwaylayah, good-bye (said by one going).
* Innerah, mistress.
* Kumbooran, east.
* Kurreah, alligator.
* Mäh, totem.
* Marmbeyah, white devil who carries a green boondee.
* May, wind.
* Mayamah, stone.
* Mayrah, wind.
* Meamei, The Girls, Pleiades.
* Mil, eye.
* Minggah, spirit-haunted tree.
* Mirrieh, poligonum.
* Moodai, opossum.
* Moogaray, hailstones.
* Moorillah, pebbly ridge.
* Mubboo, beefwood-tree,
* Mubboon, small creek running into larger one.
* Muggil, stone knife.
* Mullayerh, mate, companion.
* Mullee Mullee, dream-spirit (of a wirreenun).
* Mulloka, water-spirit.
* Mundehwaddah, north-west wind.
* Munggheewurraywurraymul, sea-gull.
* Mungoonyarlee, iguana (largest kind of).
* Murgah Muggui, trap-door spider.
* Murroomin, bark.
* Noongah, kurragong tree.
* Noongahburrah, belonging to the Noongah country.
* Noorahgogo, orange and blue beetle.
* Nooroonooroobin, south wind.
* Noorumbah, hunting-ground.
* Numbardee, mother.
* Nurroolooan, south.
* Nyunnoo, grass humpy.
* Oobi Oobi, Byamee's mountain dwelling-place in the other world.
* Oodoolay, round rain-making stone.
* Oolah, red, prickly lizard.
* Oonah, give.
* Ouyouboolooey, black snake.
* Piggiebillah, spiny Echidna.
* Purleemil, woman's name (= starry eyes).
* Wa-ah, shell.
* Wahlerh, manna running down stems of branches
* Wahn, crow.