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单词 wurley
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wurleyn.

Brit. /ˈwəːli/, U.S. /ˈwərli/, Australian English /ˈwɜːli/
Forms: Also 1800s worley, worlie, 1900s whirlie; in plural wurlies.
Etymology: Australian Aboriginal word ‘from the language of the Adelaide tribe’ (G. Taplin Native Tribes S. Australia 12).
Australian.
An Australian Aboriginal hut. Also attributive.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun] > types of
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1847 G. F. Angas Savage Life & Scenes Austral. & N.Z. I. 105 Two men..approached one of the wurlies.
1848 G. B. Wilkinson S. Austral. 323 The men break down branches of trees and strip bark to make themselves a worley or shelter.
1887 H. W. Daly Digging, Squatting, & Pioneering Life S. Austral. 31 The body of an unfortunate Chinaman was found half-roasted on a wurley fire.
1887 H. W. Daly Digging, Squatting, & Pioneering Life S. Austral. 67 They lived in wurleys... These miserable substitutes for houses are ‘lean-to's’, made of sheets of bark propped up by saplings.
1934 A. Russell Tramp-royal in Wild Austral. x. 78 The camp was made up of a cluster of spinifex-covered wurlies.
1936 I. L. Idriess Cattle King vi. 51 A hundred warriors were lazing about their wurlies, sleeping the midday peace away.
1954 B. Miles Stars my Blanket xi. 76 A huddle of wurlies and a yapping throng of lean kangaroo dogs..told us the blacks were camped.
1959 A. Upfield Bony & Black Virgin x. 80 Several whirlies of bark and odd sheets of corrugated iron and hessian bags, inhabited by aborigines.
1961 Times 19 July 12/6 We found them [sc. aborigines]..sitting outside their whirlies.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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