(in Aboriginal English) an incision made on the body as part of a mourning ritual.
the women of the immediate family gashed their bodies with big sorry cuts
Example sentencesExamples
- Settlement orderlies maintain a close watch for knives with which grieving relatives may inflict 'sorry cuts' on themselves.
- The old women would make 'sorry-cuts' on their foreheads with a couple of rocks.
- She was hitting herself in the head with a rock, giving herself sorry cuts—just like a woman at a funeral.
- He proudly displayed his 'sorry cuts', a sign of his connection to family and country.
- Sorry cuts are just one of a range of ways bodily injury was used in traditional Aboriginal societies.
- She hit him on the head, trying to inflict a 'sorry cut'.
- Someone may come to work with sorry cuts after a relative's death.