gunyah
(ˈgʌnjə)
Also 9 gun(n)eah, guneeah, gun(n)ya, gunyer, -yia, -yio, guniar.
[Native Australian.]
A native Australian hut. (Cf. humpy and gibber.)
| [1798 D. Collins Acc. Eng. Colony N.S. Wales, Aboriginal Voc. Port Jackson I. 610 Go-nie, a hut.] 1820 J. Oxley Jrnl. Exped. Australia 117 He [the native] threw down..the little bark guneah which had sheltered him and his family during the night. 1847 L. Leichhardt Jrnl. Overland Exped. ix. 290 We saw a very interesting camping place of the natives, containing several two-storied gunyas. 1848 H. W. Haygarth Recoll. Bush Life Austral. x. 105 Comfortably sleeping in an adjacent ‘gunyio’, or camp. Ibid. xii. 132 Perhaps the most primitive boat in the world: like the ‘gunyio's’, or huts, of the aborigines, it is built in a few minutes. 1870 Wilson Austral. Songs 140 From the gunyahs 'neath the headland Curled the smoke. 1890 ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Squatter's Dream xiv. 157 For two pins I'd put a match in every gunyah on the place. |