# Australian Legendary Tales/Glossary

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​ Glossary
* Bahloo, moon.
* Beeargah, hawk.
* Beeleer, black cockatoo.
* Beereeun, prickly lizard.
* Bibbee, woodpecker, bird.
* Bibbil, shiny-leaved box-tree.
* Bilber, a large kind of rat.
* Billai or Billay, crimson-wing parrot.
* Bindeah, a prickle or small thorn.
* Bingah wingul, needle bush, a tall thorny shrub.
* Birrahgnooloo, woman's name, meaning "face like a tomahawk handle."
* Birrahlee, baby.
* Birrahleegul, children.
* Boobootella, the big bunch of feathers at the back of an emu.
* Boolooral, an owl.
* Boomerang, a curved weapon used in hunting and in warfare by the blacks; called Burren by the Narran blacks.
* Bootoolgah, blue-grey crane.
* Borah, a large gathering of blacks where the boys are initiated into the mysteries which make them young men.
* Bou-gou-doo-gahdah, the rain bird. Like the bower or mocking bird.
* Bouyou, legs.
* Bowrah or Bohrah, kangaroo.
* Bralgahs, native companion, bird.
* Bubberah, boomerang that returns.
* Backandee, native cat.
* Buggoo, flying squirrel.
* Bulgahnunnoo, bark-backed.
* Bumble, a fruit-bearing tree, sometimes called wild orange and sometimes wild pomegranate tree. Capparis.
* Bunbundoolooey, brown flock pigeon. ​
* Bunnyyarl, flies.
* Burreenjin, magpie, lark, or peewee.
* Budtha, rosewood-tree, also girl's name.
* Byamee, man's name, meaning "big man."
* Comebee, bag made of kangaroo shins.
* Comeboo, stone tomahawk.
* Cookooburrah, laughing jackass.
* Coorigil, name of place, meaning sign of bees.
* Corrobboree, black fellows' dance.
* Cunnembeillee, woman's name, meaning pig-weed root.
* Curree guin guin, butcher-bird.
* Daen, black fellows.
* Dardurr, bark, humpy or shed.
* Dayah minyah, carpet snake.
* Dayoorl, large flat stone for grinding grass-seed upon.
* Deegeenboyah, soldier-bird.
* Deereeree, willy wagtail.
* Dheal, the sacred tree of the Noongahburrahs, only used for putting on the graves of the dead.
* Dinewan, emu.
* Dingo, native dog.
* Doonburr, a grass seed.
* Doongara, lightning.
* Dummerh, pigeons.
* Dungle, water hole.
* Dunnia, wattle.
* Durrie, bread made from grass seed.
* Eär moonän, long sharp teeth.
* Euloo marah, large tree grubs. Edible.
* Euloo wirree, rainbow.
* Galah or Gilah, a French grey and rose-coloured cockatoo.
* Gayandy, borah devil.
* Gidgereegah, a species of small parrot.
* Girrahween, place of flowers.
* Gooeea, warriors.
* Googarh, iguana.
* Googoolguyyah, turn into trees.
* Googoorewon, place of trees.
* Goolahbah, grey-leaved box-tree.
* Goolahgool, water-holding tree.
* Goolahwilleel, top-knot pigeon.
* Gooloo, magpie.
* Goomade, red stump.
* Goomai, water rat.
* Goomblegubbon, bustard or plain turkey.
* Goomillah, young girl's dress, consisting of waist strings made of opossum's sinews with strands of woven opossum's hair hanging about a foot square in front.
* Goonur, kangaroo rat.
* Goug gour gahgah, laughing jackass. Literal meaning, "Take a stick." ​
* Grooee, handsome foliaged tree bearing a plum-like fruit, tart and bitter, but much liked by the blacks.
* Gubberah, magical stones of Wirreenun. Clear crystallised quatty.
* Guddah, red lizard.
* Guiebet, a thorny creeper bearing masses of a lovely myrtle-like flower and an edible fruit somewhat resembling passion fruit.
* Guinary, light eagle hawk.
* Guineeboo, robin redbreast.
* Gurraymy, borah devil.
* Gwai, red.
* Gwaibillah, star. Mars.
* Kurreah, an alligator.
* Mahthi, dog.
* Maimah, stones.
* Maira, paddy melon.
* May or Mayr, wind.
* Mayrah, spring wind.
* Meamei, girls.
* Midjee, a species of acacia.
* Millair, species of kangaroo rat.
* Moodai, opossum.
* Moogaray, hailstones.
* Mooninguggahgul, mosquito-calling bird.
* Moonoon, emu spear.
* Mooregoo, mopoke.
* Mooroonumildah, having no eyes.
* Morilla or Moorillah, pebbly ridges.
* Mubboo, beef wood-tree.
* Mullyan, eagle hawk.
* Mullyangah, the morning star.
* Murgah muggui, big grey spider.
* Murrawondah, climbing rat.
* Narahdarn, bat.
* Noongahburrah, tribe of blacks on the Narran.
* Nullah nullah, a club or heavy-headed weapon.
* Nurroo gay gay, dreadful pain.
* Nyunnoo or Nunnoo, a grass, humpy.
* Ooboon, blue-tongued lizard.
* Oolah, red prickly lizard.
* Oongnairwah, black diver.
* Ouyan, curlew.
* Piggiebillah, ant-eater. One of the Echidna, a marsupial.
* Quarrian, a kind of parrot.
* Quatha, quandong; a red fruit like a round red plum.
* U e hu, rain, only so called in song.
* Wahgoo, to hide. A game like hide-and-seek.
* Wahroogah, children.
* Wahn, crow.
* Wayambeh, turtle.
* Waywah, worn by men, consisting of a waistband made of opossum's sinews with bunches of strips of paddy melon skins hanging from it. ​
* Weedah, bower or mocking-bird.
* Weeoombeen, a small bird. Some thing like a redbreast, only with longer tail and not so red a breast.
* Widya nurrah, a wooden battle-axe shaped weapon.
* Willgoo willgoo, painted stick with feathers on top.
* Wirree, small piece of bark, canoe-shaped.
* Wirreenun, priest or doctor.
* Womba, mad.
* Wondah, spirit or ghost.
* Wurranunnah, wild bees.
* Wurrawilberoo, whirlwind with a devil in it; also clouds of Magellan.
* Wurranunnah, bee.
* Wurrunnah, man's name, meaning standing.
* Yaraan, white gum-tree.
* Yhi, the sun.
* Yuckay, oh dear!
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