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cockabully
cockabully N.Z. (ˈkɒkəbʊlɪ) [Corruption of Maori kokopu.] A small blunt-nosed freshwater fish in New Zealand.1896 Australasian 29 Aug. 407/3 During my stay in New Zealand my little girl caught a fish rather larger than an English minnow. Her young companions called it a ‘cock-a-bully’... The Maori n...
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Estuarine triplefin
The estuarine triplefin or cockabully (Forsterygion nigripenne) is a species of triplefin blenny in the genus Forsterygion.
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Wakapuaka River
, redfin bully, giant bully, upland bully, inanga (also known as common galaxias), koaro (also known as climbing galaxias), brown trout, torrentfish, cockabully
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ponga
▪ I. ponga (ˈpʌŋə) Also bunger, bungy, punga. [Maori.] An evergreen New Zealand tree-fern, Cyathea dealbata, belonging to the family Cyatheaceæ; also attrib.1832 G. Bennett in London Med. Gaz. 22 Sept. 793/2 This fern..is named Ponga by the natives, who use the trunks as posts in the erection of the...
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List of English words of Australian Aboriginal origin
falsely assumed to be of Australian Aboriginal origin
bandicoot (from the Telugu, pandikokku a term originally referring to the unrelated bandicoot rat)
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bully
▪ I. bully, n.1 (ˈbʊlɪ) Also 6 bullye. [Etymology obscure: possibly ad. Du. boel ‘lover (of either sex)’, also ‘brother’ (Verwijs & Verdam); cf. MHG. buole, mod.Ger. buhle ‘lover’, earlier also ‘friend, kinsman’. Bailey 1721 has boolie ‘beloved’ as an ‘old word’. Bully can hardly be identical with S...
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