gina-gina
/ˈdʒɪnədʒɪnə
/noun Australian
A kind of dress worn by Aboriginal women in some areas of Western Australia: their gina-ginas were red with road dust...
- Thin, bony fingers grabbed at and scratched their legs, tore their gina-ginas.
- They were slight, straight figures in dungaree gina-ginas.
- They get tea and sugar and tobacco, a cake of soap and a couple of gina-ginas a year.
Origin
Early 20th century: probably from the Mantjiltjara dialect of Western Desert language.
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