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单词 warrigal
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warrigaln.adj.

Brit. /ˈwɒrᵻɡ(ə)l/, U.S. /ˈwɔrəɡ(ə)l/, /ˈwɑrəɡ(ə)l/, Australian English /ˈwɔrəɡ(ə)l/
Forms: Also 1800s warragal, warragle.
Etymology: An Australian Aboriginal word, spelt warregal, wor-re-gal, war-ri-gal, wor-rikul, wa-ri-kul etc. by various writers on the Australian Aboriginallanguages; said to have the senses ‘dog’ and ‘savage’ (n.adj.). In the former sense it is frequently quoted as an Australian Aboriginal word from 1793 onwards; the sense ‘savage’ is given by Bunce Lang. Aborigines Victoria, 1859.
Australian.
A. n.
1. The wild dog of Australia, the dingo n.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Canis > canis dingo (dingo)
dingo1790
warrigal1838
1838 J. Hawdon Jrnl. Journey New S. Wales to Adelaide (1952) 25 We could find no traces of the sheep except in two places, where we could perceive they had been pursued by the Warrigals.
1848 H. W. Haygarth Recoll. Bush Life Austral. v. 44 His ‘coolie’ dogs will awaken him on the approach of a ‘warragle’, or native dog.
1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes I. x. 313 The dingo, warragal, or native dog, does not hunt in packs.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Squatter's Dream xix. 240 A warrigal will be picking some of your bones before this day six months.
1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 4 Where the warrigal whimpers and bays through the dust of the sere river-courses.
2. An Australian Aboriginal person living in a traditional manner (esp. as distinct from one accustomed to, or living amongst, white people), a myall.
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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
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer II. xvii. 79 I swore to shoot the old warrigal at sight.
1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Aug. 4/2 A ‘warrigal’ originally meant a wild Blackfellow.
in extended use.1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Aug. 4/2 By an easy and natural transition, ‘warrigal’ has now come to signify a hot-blooded youth who goes the pace and makes things hum when he gets out of his teens.
3. A wild or untamed Australian horse.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > [noun] > equus ferus (wild horse) > Australian
brumby1871
warrigal1881
1881 Australasian 21 May 647/4 How we ran in ‘The Black Warragal’.
1890 Argus (Melbourne) 14 June 4/2 Mike, he'd fret himself to death in a stable and maybe kill the groom. Mike's a warrigal, he is.
B. adj.
Wild.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [adjective]
wilda1300
bestiala1398
wilderna1400
savagine?a1439
barbaric1490
rudea1530
barbar1535
barbarous1538
pagan1550
uncivil1553
Scythical1559
raw?1573
savaged1583
incivil1586
savage1589
barbarian1591
uncivilized1607
negerous1609
mountainous1613
ruvid1632
ruvidous1632
barbarious1633
incivilizeda1645
alabandical1656
inhumanea1680
tramontane1740
semi-barbarous1798
irreclaimed1814
semi-savage1833
semiferine1854
warrigal1855
sloven1856
semi-barbaric1864
pre-civilized1876
wild and woolly1884
jungle1908
medieval1917
jungli1920
1855 in Stewart & Keesing Old Bush Songs (1957) 164 I'm a warragle fellow that long hath dwelt In the wild interior, nor hath felt, Nor heard, nor seen the pleasures of town.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer viii A real good wholesome cabbage—warrigal cabbage, the shepherds call it.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Squatter's Dream xx. 249 He's a good shot and these warrigal devils knows it.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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n.adj.1838
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