Baˈnanaland
[See quot. 1898.]
A colloquial Australian name for Queensland. Hence Baˈnanalander.
| 1898 Morris Austral English, Banana-land, slang name for Queensland, where bananas grow in abundance. Bananalander, slang for a Queenslander. 1901 Westm. Gaz. 2 Apr. 1/3 The Bananaland capital. 1901 Daily Chron. 4 Apr. 5/1 [He] was born in ‘Bananaland’. Ibid. 18 Nov. 5/1 The Bananaland statesman. 1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 11 Jan. 10 Bananaland has had a fruit marketing organisation for years. 1934 T. Wood Cobbers 144 So let this mob of Cornstalks, Croweaters, Sandgropers, and Bananalanders go on yapping, say Victorians. |