单词 | myall |
释义 | myalln.1adj. Australian (derogatory). A. n.1 1. In Australian Aboriginal usage: a stranger; a person who is ignorant of traditional Aboriginal culture. Cf. munjon n. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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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