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单词 yonnie
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Definition of yonnie in English:

yonnie

(also yonny)
noun ˈjɒni
Australian
  • A pebble.

    a yonnie chucked on a corrugated roof made a far more satisfactory noise
    Example sentencesExamples
    • We would dig down as far as we could go and to remove the 'yonnies'.
    • For a champion 'yonnie chucker' and opening bowler, it was not a challenge.
    • From a position some feet away outside the circle, one flicked or threw a yonnie.
    • Get a yonnie and give it a little tap.
    • Judy had the bad luck to be standing there working her way through a bag of chips and watching us toss yonnies at the headmaster's window.

Origin

1940s: perhaps from a Victorian Aboriginal language.

 
 
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