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单词 myall
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myalln.1adj.

Brit. /ˈmʌɪəl/, U.S. /ˈmaɪəl/, Australian English /ˈmɑeəl/
Forms: 1800s mial, 1800s miel, 1800s myal, 1800s– myall. Also with capital initial.
Origin: A borrowing from Dharuk. Etymon: Dharuk maiyal.
Etymology: < Dharuk (Sydney region) maiyal stranger, person from another tribe (1798 as mi-yal in D. Collins Acct. Eng. Colony New S. Wales I. 610; also as mayal , miyal ). Compare myall n.2
Australian (derogatory).
A. n.1
1. In Australian Aboriginal usage: a stranger; a person who is ignorant of traditional Aboriginal culture. Cf. munjon n.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Antipodes > native or inhabitant of Australia > [noun] > types of
myall1818
whitefellow1834
Mongolian1859
New Australian1905
New Australian1926
munjon1945
Naussie1947
ocker1971
1818 J. Holt Mem. (1838) II. 148 They [sc. natives] are very inquisitive, and said to me, ‘Name you? You are Miel’. That is to say, ‘You are a stranger, what is your name?’
1830 R. Dawson Present State Austral. 41 Called by the natives ‘Myall’, meaning, in their language, stranger.
1982 Yulngu Aug. 23 Chips lost the Mimi Toyota out bush one weekend!!.. He is a bit of a myall in the bush.
1987 Junga Yimi Sept. 26 Men got to sit with women and kids...Smart Man got to sit with Myall.
2.
a. In non-Aboriginal usage: an Australian Aboriginal person retaining a traditional lifestyle; a person who is ignorant of the ways of white society and often hostile to contact with white people. Cf. munjon n., warrigal n. 2.
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the world > people > ethnicities > New Zealand and Australian indigenous peoples > Australian Aboriginal peoples > [noun] > specific peoples > person
myall1837
Tasmanian1842
warrigal1890
Nunga1924
Nyungar1954
Anangu1982
society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [noun] > transmitted from one generation to another > adherence to > one who > Australian Aboriginal person retaining traditional lifestyle
myall1837
warrigal1890
1837 Colonist (Sydney) 2 Feb. 40/2 ‘They are only myalls’ i.e. wild natives.
1838 T. L. Mitchell Three Exped. I. 20 The natives who remain in a savage state..are named ‘myalls’ by their half civilized brethren.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 202 A lot of half-tamed naked Myalls, as yet hardly to be trusted.
1933 Oceania 4 406 There has been no active coercion to persuade incorrigible ‘myalls’ to forsake the bush or change their mode of life.
1941 S. Campion Mo Burdekin 203 In truth she was appalled, this myall who was at her happiest in the bush.
1976 S. Weller Bastards I have met 98 Charlie's people were Myalls and never saw a white man.
1997 Canberra Times (Nexis) 6 Dec. a3 For decades after his 1873 report, the rainforests were considered the haven of giant predatory myalls with a partiality for Chinese flesh.
2002 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 20 July 27 He is on his way back to Alice Springs town area, where he has to camp like a desert myall in the fierce midsummer heat.
b. In extended use.
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1893 Argus (Melbourne) 29 Apr. 4/4 in E. E. Morris Austral Eng. (1898) (at cited word) To secure these myalls [sc. wild cattle] we took down sixty or seventy head of quiet cows.
1938 X. Herbert Capricornia 72 Anna chased him through mud and mangroves and brought him home thrice before it occurred to her that he was what she called a Myall, a wild creature.
B. adj.
1.
a. In non-Aboriginal usage: retaining a traditional Aboriginal lifestyle; ignorant of the ways of white society.
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1827 Australian 27 Mar. 2/4 These mial or strange blacks have related..that there exists in the western country, many days off, a vast interior sea, where the water is salt, and where whales are seen to spout!
1835 in T. L. Mitchell Three Exped. (1838) I. App. 349 The smoke from fires of the Myall blacks.
1838 T. L. Mitchell Three Exped. I. 50 He had been unwilling to acknowledge to me his dread of the ‘myall’ tribes.
1844 C. Wilkes Narr. U.S. Exploring Exped. II. 197 They always betray the greatest fear of falling in with some Myall or stranger blacks.
1890 T. Heney In Middle Harbour 37 I turned my head at a rise, and the Myall crew behind, The leaders with firesticks, came the flying traces to find.
1927 Bulletin (Sydney) 5 May 27/1 The myall binghi is ingenious in contriving patterns wherewith to decorate his cobber's body.
1945 E. George Two at Daly Waters 89 Friendly myall natives played an important part.
1984 B. Dixon Searching for Aboriginal Lang. 49 Willy was the most myall of all, and if anyone knew any language it would be him.
1987 R. M. Berndt & C. H. Berndt End of Era 123 Some took no notice of any of these, saying they themselves were only ignorant ‘myall-buggas’ who knew nothing about such things.
b. In extended use: (of an animal or plant) wild, feral; inhabiting or native to the bush.
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the world > animals > domestic animal > [adjective] > untamed
wildc725
untemeda1000
savagea1275
ramagec1300
untameda1340
untamea1382
ramageousa1398
tameless1597
unreclaimed1614
indomite1617
immansuete1656
feral1659
myall1848
wilding1853
maroon1890
undomesticated1972
1848 Atlas (Sydney) 4 359/2 Occasionally they tell of some one ‘tumble down’ from bite of myall snake.
1851 J. Henderson Excursions & Adventures New S. Wales I. 271 We were unable to feed our dogs, and they had assumed somewhat the appearance of the Myall Dingo or wild dog.
1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms I. ii. 19 Didn't like the thought of his children growing up like Myall cattle.
1900 H. Lawson Verses Pop. & Humorous 233 But a stout old myall bullock p'raps 'ud learn yer somethin' new.
1963 D. Robert Look at me Now 92 I found a bush of wild lemons or ‘myall lemons’ as they are called.
2. In Australian Aboriginal usage: ignorant of traditional Aboriginal culture.
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1983 P. Nathan & D. L. Japanangka Settle Down Country 17 Does the researcher think I'm myall (stupid)? She knows the answers. What is she asking me these things for?

Compounds

myall snake n. (in early use) a wild or dangerous snake; (in later use) spec. the curl snake, Suta suta (family Elapidae), a brownish nocturnal snake found widely in drier areas of eastern Australia.
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1848*Myall snake [see sense B. 1b].
1959 D. R. McPhee Some Common Snakes & Lizards of Austral. (1979) 70 The Myall Snake produces live young.
1989 R. T. Hoser Austral. Reptiles & Frogs 171/1 Curl or Myall Snake. Suta suta (Peters, 1863)... Found in most drier parts of the eastern two-thirds of Australia.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

myalln.2

Brit. /ˈmʌɪəl/, U.S. /ˈmaɪəl/, Australian English /ˈmɑeəl/
Forms: 1800s miall, 1800s myal, 1800s– myall.
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a borrowing from Dharuk. Etymon: Dharuk maiyal.
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps < Dharuk (Sydney region) maiyal stranger (see myall n.1); Austral. National Dict. (1988) suggests that the word was applied by speakers of Kamilaroi to the wood they traded with speakers of Dharuk, who were ‘strangers’.
Originally and chiefly Australian.
I. Compounds.
1. General attributive, designating any of several Australian acacias (see sense 3). More fully myall-brush, myall tree, etc.
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1840 J. Gould Birds Austral. (1848) II. Pl. 22 The only parts where I have observed it [sc. the Red-backed Halcyon] was the myall-brushes (Acacia pendula) of the Lower Namoi.
1845 J. O. Balfour Sketch New S. Wales 38 The Myall-tree..is the most picturesque tree of New South Wales.
1893 J. A. Barry Steve Brown's Bunyip 277 The myall ashes still glowed redly.
1951 A. B. Paterson Coll. Verse i. 25 Where fierce hot winds have set the pine and myall boughs asweep.
2001 Sunday Mail (S. Austral.) (Nexis) 15 Apr. 40 We drive past endless red sand, the odd road kill, saltbush blue bush, quandong trees and gnarled old myall trees.
2. myall country n. [perhaps < myall n.1] an area in which myall trees predominate; (also) a wild place inhabited by Aboriginal people living a traditional lifestyle.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land > types of
ripplelOE
wildwooda1122
rough1332
firth?a1400
tod stripec1446
osiard1509
bush1523
bush-ground1523
fritha1552
island1638
oak landc1658
pinelandc1658
piney wood1666
broom-land1707
pine barrenc1721
pine savannah1735
savannah1735
thick woods1754
scrub-land1779
olive wood1783
primeval forest1789
open wood1790
strong woods1792
scrub1805
oak flata1816
sertão1816
sprout-land1824
flatwoods1841
bush-land1842
tall timber1845
amber forest1846
caatinga1846
mahogany scrub1846
bush-flat1847
myall country1847
national forest1848
selva1849
monte1851
virgin forest1851
bush-country1855
savannah forest1874
bush-range1879
bushveld1879
protection forest1889
mulga1896
wood-bush1896
shinnery1901
fringing forest1903
monsoon forest1903
rainforest1903
savannah woodland1903
thorn forest1903
tropical rainforest1903
gallery forest1920
cloud forest1922
rain jungle1945
mato1968
1847 Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane) 3 July The run is abundantly watered, and the Cattle Station a Myall country.
1857 F. de B. Cooper Wild Adventures 123 A similar question in the myal country would have been taken as an insult.
1867 ‘Clergyman’ Aust. as it Is 20 Cattle are very fond of eating the leaves, and, as a consequence, ‘Myall country’ is usually considered first-class.
1896 Bulletin (Sydney) 18 Apr. 27/2 The coast blackboys, with pioneer squatters, when they reached myall country, recognised the wood and called it myall.
1911 Bulletin (Sydney) 26 Oct. 13/2 Away out on the myall country at the back of the Hodgkinson.
1930 D. Cottrell Earth Battle 39 On dubious errands he had ventured far into ‘the Myall Country’ of the Blacks.
1996 Australian (Nexis) 20 Feb. The 10,148ha farm, 65km north of St George, has a 10km frontage to the Balonne River and includes about 800ha of cultivation and 1600ha of box, sandalwood, ironbark, belah, myall and brigalow country.
II. Simple uses.
3. Any of several Australian acacias; esp. (more fully weeping myall) Acacia pendula, which yields a hard scented wood. Also: the wood of any of these trees, used as fencing timber, etc.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > Australasian
tallow-tree1704
rata1773
rosewood1779
red mahogany1798
ironbark1799
wild orange1802
red gum1803
rewarewa1817
red cedar1818
black-butted gum1820
Huon pine1820
miro1820
oak1821
horoeka1831
hinau1832
maire1832
totara1832
blackbutt1833
marri1833
raspberry jam tree1833
kohekohe1835
puriri1835
tawa1839
hickory1840
whau1840
pukatea1841
titoki1842
butterbush1843
iron gum1844
York gum1846
mangeao1848
myall1848
ironheart1859
lilly-pilly1860
belah1862
flindosa1862
jarrah1866
silky oak1866
teak of New South Wales1866
Tolosa-wood1866
turmeric-tree1866
walking-stick palm1869
tooart1870
queenwood1873
tarairi1873
boree1878
yate1880
axe-breaker1884
bangalay1884
coachwood1884
cudgerie1884
feather-wood1884
forest mahogany1884
maiden's blush1884
swamp mahogany1884
tallow-wood1884
teak of New Zealand1884
wandoo1884
heartwood1885
ivorywood1887
Jimmy Low1887
Burdekin plum1889
corkwood1889
pigeon-berry ash1889
red beech1889
silver beech1889
turnip-wood1891
black bean1895
red bean1895
pinkwood1898
poplar1898
rose mahogany1898
quandong1908
lancewood1910
New Zealand honeysuckle1910
Queensland walnut1919
mahogany gum1944
Australian mahogany1948
1848 Maitland (New S. Wales) Mercury 6 Dec. 4/3 The road was tolerably well defined, and passes through groves of weeping myall (acacia pendula).
1851 Empire (Sydney) 30 Jan. 2/2 The sable Australian..never contrived a defter thing than..his boomerang of plain-cut miall.
1880 Silver's Handbk. Austral. 275 Stringy bark is useful for boards..myall for pipes.
1930 Econ. Geogr. 6 116 A lone Myall, one of the acacias growing in arid South Australia.
1980 G. Dutton Wedge-tailed Eagle 2 Up he flaps, slow and awkward, to a myall where he sits all bunched-up.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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