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Definition of bunyip in English: bunyipnoun ˈbʌnjɪpˈbənyip Australian 1A mythical amphibious monster said to inhabit inland waterways. Example sentencesExamples - It is the study of such creatures as the Australian bunyip, Bigfoot, the chupacabra, and the Loch Ness monster.
- However, most Australians now consider the existence of the bunyip to be mythical.
- It's mirrored by an account told by white settlers of a paddle steamer captain who shot a bunyip.
- Examples of the former are the yowie (Australia's version of Bigfoot) and the bunyip (a swamp-dwelling, hairy creature with a horselike head).
- Some say the bunyip looks like a huge snake with a beard and a mane; others say it looks like a huge furry half-human beast with a long neck and a head like a bird.
- After the bunyip returned home, Tyawan crept out of his cave to search for his magic bone.
- There was a rumble below and all the creatures began to flee yelling ‘Quick, here comes the bunyip!’.
- What's more, he is a 53-year-old man who lives outside the city, throws three-day parties and whose ex-partner has written a book about bunyips.
- There's a good history of bunyips (admittedly, with kid-friendly flash) here.
- But in recent years there has been a flood of big indigenous icons, many owned by indigenous corporations: big koalas, big kangaroos, big crocodiles, big bunyips and big barramundi.
- The Professor was going to pelt Hugh Mackay with a great, malodorous barrage of bunyip droppings, but then realised there wouldn't be any point.
- The bunyip lives in Australia and is believed by many to be a descendant of the diprotodon, a marsupial (an animal with a pouch, like the kangaroo) about the size of a rhinoceros, which became extinct thousands of years ago.
2usually as modifier An impostor or pretender. Australia's bunyip aristocracy Example sentencesExamples - Stan Gudgeon has trained his beady, jaundiced bunyip eye on leftie econo-blogger John Quiggin.
- His play on the word bunyip, with its overtones of anachronistic absurdity, reflected the refusal by Australians to institutionalise an upper class.
- So many things to get a bunyip upset, so little time to fulminate about them.
- Since the days of Macarthur there has been a bunyip aristocracy in Australia that has been offended by the idea of having to pay to acquire labour.
- A Labor Prime Minister ‘born to be a king’ is destined to produce a ‘powerful Governor-General’, ‘a bunyip aristocracy’.
- A small step for the blogosphere, but a giant leap for bunyips!
- In the early 1850s, when Wentworth chaired the committee appointed to draft a new constitution for NSW, his unsuccessful plea for an upper house based on a hereditary colonial peerage was mocked as a bunyip aristocracy.
Origin Mid 19th century: from Wemba-wemba banib. Definition of bunyip in US English: bunyipnounˈbənyip Australian 1A mythical amphibious monster inhabiting inland waterways. Example sentencesExamples - However, most Australians now consider the existence of the bunyip to be mythical.
- It is the study of such creatures as the Australian bunyip, Bigfoot, the chupacabra, and the Loch Ness monster.
- Examples of the former are the yowie (Australia's version of Bigfoot) and the bunyip (a swamp-dwelling, hairy creature with a horselike head).
- There was a rumble below and all the creatures began to flee yelling ‘Quick, here comes the bunyip!’.
- It's mirrored by an account told by white settlers of a paddle steamer captain who shot a bunyip.
- The bunyip lives in Australia and is believed by many to be a descendant of the diprotodon, a marsupial (an animal with a pouch, like the kangaroo) about the size of a rhinoceros, which became extinct thousands of years ago.
- The Professor was going to pelt Hugh Mackay with a great, malodorous barrage of bunyip droppings, but then realised there wouldn't be any point.
- There's a good history of bunyips (admittedly, with kid-friendly flash) here.
- Some say the bunyip looks like a huge snake with a beard and a mane; others say it looks like a huge furry half-human beast with a long neck and a head like a bird.
- After the bunyip returned home, Tyawan crept out of his cave to search for his magic bone.
- What's more, he is a 53-year-old man who lives outside the city, throws three-day parties and whose ex-partner has written a book about bunyips.
- But in recent years there has been a flood of big indigenous icons, many owned by indigenous corporations: big koalas, big kangaroos, big crocodiles, big bunyips and big barramundi.
2usually as modifier An impostor or pretender. Australia's bunyip aristocracy Example sentencesExamples - A small step for the blogosphere, but a giant leap for bunyips!
- A Labor Prime Minister ‘born to be a king’ is destined to produce a ‘powerful Governor-General’, ‘a bunyip aristocracy’.
- So many things to get a bunyip upset, so little time to fulminate about them.
- Since the days of Macarthur there has been a bunyip aristocracy in Australia that has been offended by the idea of having to pay to acquire labour.
- Stan Gudgeon has trained his beady, jaundiced bunyip eye on leftie econo-blogger John Quiggin.
- His play on the word bunyip, with its overtones of anachronistic absurdity, reflected the refusal by Australians to institutionalise an upper class.
- In the early 1850s, when Wentworth chaired the committee appointed to draft a new constitution for NSW, his unsuccessful plea for an upper house based on a hereditary colonial peerage was mocked as a bunyip aristocracy.
Origin Mid 19th century: from Wemba-wemba banib. |