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wurley Austr.|ˈwɜːlɪ|
Also 9 worley, worlie, 20 whirlie; in pl. wurlies.
[Native word ‘from the language of the Adelaide tribe’ (G. Taplin Native Tribes S. Australia 12).]
An aboriginal's hut. Also attrib.
1847G. F. Angas Savage Life I. 105 Two men..approached one of the wurlies. 1848G. B. Wilkinson S. Australia 323 The men break down branches of trees and strip bark to make themselves a worley or shelter. 1887H. W. Daly Digging etc. S. Australia 31 The body of an unfortunate Chinaman was found half-roasted on a wurley fire. Ibid. 67 They lived in wurleys... These miserable substitutes for houses are ‘lean-to's’, made of sheets of bark propped up by saplings. 1934A. Russell Tramp Royal in Wild Austral. x. 78 The camp was made up of a cluster of spinifex-covered wurlies. 1936I. L. Idriess Cattle King vi. 51 A hundred warriors were lazing about their wurlies, sleeping the midday peace away. 1954B. Miles Stars my Blanket xi. 76 A huddle of wurlies and a yapping throng of lean kangaroo dogs..told us the blacks were camped. 1959A. Upfield Bony & Black Virgin x. 80 Several whirlies of bark and odd sheets of corrugated iron and hessian bags, inhabited by aborigines. 1961Times 19 July 12/6 We found them [sc. aborigines]..sitting outside their whirlies. |