| 释义 |
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.)
[1798D. Collins Acc. Eng. Colony N.S. Wales, Aboriginal Voc. Port Jackson I. 610 Go-nie, a hut.] 1820J. Oxley Jrnl. Exped. Australia 117 He [the native] threw down..the little bark guneah which had sheltered him and his family during the night. 1847L. Leichhardt Jrnl. Overland Exped. ix. 290 We saw a very interesting camping place of the natives, containing several two-storied gunyas. 1848H. 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. 1870Wilson 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. |