mindi
/ˈmɪndʌɪ
/noun Australian
(In Aboriginal mythology) a creature in the form of a huge snake that brings disease: they believed the hostile tribes had unleashed the power of mindi on them...
- He would move the creator spirit to release mindi, a great snake who hissed poison.
- The plague was a reference to smallpox, known locally as <i>mono-la-mindi</i> ('dust of mindi').
- More ominous was the calling of the serpent mindi using a ritual in which men and women danced single-file with tufts of feathers.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from Wemba-wemba (an extinct Aboriginal language) mirnday.
- that's as maybe
- that's a thought!
- that's done it!
- that's flat
- that's it
- that's life
- that's my boy (or girl)!
- that's (or them's) the breaks
- that's that
- that's the idea
- that's the stuff
- that's the way the cookie crumbles
- that's torn it
- that's your (or his, her, etc.) problem
- that way (inclined)
- mislike
- misline
- mislineation
- mislippen
- mislist
- mislive
- mislocalization
- mislocalize
- mislocate
- mislocation