bogongn.

Brit.

/ˈbəʊɡɒŋ/, U.S.

/ˈboʊˌɡɑŋ/, Australian English

/ˈboʊɡɒŋ/

Forms: 1800s bougong, 1800s–1900s bugong, 1900s– bogong.

Origin: A borrowing from Ngarigo. Etymon: Ngarigo buguŋ.

Etymology: < Ngarigo (New South Wales and Victoria) buguŋ.

Chiefly Australian.

An Australian noctuid moth, Agrotis infusa, which appears in large numbers during its spring migration to the plains, and was formerly eaten by Australian Aboriginal people. Now usually bogong moth.

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1834 G. Bennett Wanderings New S. Wales I. 265 It is named the ‘Bugong Mountain’, from the circumstance of multitudes of small moths, called Bugong by the aborigines, congregating at certain months of the year about masses of granite on this and other parts of the range.

1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. G. Hamlyn xxxix To collect and feed on the great grey moths (Bougongs) which are found on the rocks.

1878 R. B. Smyth Aborigines Victoria I. 207 The Bugong moths..are greedily devoured by the natives.

1906 Daily Chron. 5 Oct. 8/5 No European seems to have found the courage necessary to taste bugong cakes.

1919 T. Steel in Nature 3 July 345/2 In Australia at certain seasons a ‘cutworm’ moth, known as the ‘bogong’ or ‘bugong’ (Agrotis infusa), swarms in myriads in many places.

1961 R. Park Hole in Hill (1962) ii. 13 The big bogong moths would be coming in.

2005 Independent on Sunday 16 Oct. 45/1 Bogong moths hurtle around the room like kamikaze pilots.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	bogong
释义	bogongn. Brit. /ˈbəʊɡɒŋ/, U.S. /ˈboʊˌɡɑŋ/, Australian English /ˈboʊɡɒŋ/ Forms: 1800s bougong, 1800s–1900s bugong, 1900s– bogong. Origin: A borrowing from Ngarigo. Etymon: Ngarigo buguŋ. Etymology: < Ngarigo (New South Wales and Victoria) buguŋ. Chiefly Australian. An Australian noctuid moth, Agrotis infusa, which appears in large numbers during its spring migration to the plains, and was formerly eaten by Australian Aboriginal people. Now usually bogong moth. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Noctuidae > genus Agrotis (dart-moths) > danais limniace or agrotis spina (bugong) bogong1834 1834 G. Bennett Wanderings New S. Wales I. 265 It is named the ‘Bugong Mountain’, from the circumstance of multitudes of small moths, called Bugong by the aborigines, congregating at certain months of the year about masses of granite on this and other parts of the range. 1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. G. Hamlyn xxxix To collect and feed on the great grey moths (Bougongs) which are found on the rocks. 1878 R. B. Smyth Aborigines Victoria I. 207 The Bugong moths..are greedily devoured by the natives. 1906 Daily Chron. 5 Oct. 8/5 No European seems to have found the courage necessary to taste bugong cakes. 1919 T. Steel in Nature 3 July 345/2 In Australia at certain seasons a ‘cutworm’ moth, known as the ‘bogong’ or ‘bugong’ (Agrotis infusa), swarms in myriads in many places. 1961 R. Park Hole in Hill (1962) ii. 13 The big bogong moths would be coming in. 2005 Independent on Sunday 16 Oct. 45/1 Bogong moths hurtle around the room like kamikaze pilots. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1834
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