goondie Austral.
(ˈguːndɪ)
Also gundy.
[Aboriginal.]
= gunyah.
| 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer xvii. 204 There were a dozen ‘goondies’ to be visited. 1908 Mrs. A. Gunn We of Never-Never xiv. 186 The man..rode out of the gundy camp, and out of our lives. 1966 Baker Austral. Lang. (ed. 2) vi. 80 We have taken the words..gunyah, goondie or gundie,..from the Aborigines and used them to denote huts or shelters. |