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.
- give someone a piece of one's mind
- give someone a shout
- give someone away
- give someone Bondi
- give someone credit for
- give someone grief
- give someone head
- give someone hell
- give someone one
- give someone (or get) a thick ear
- give someone (or get) the bum's rush
- give someone (some) skin
- give someone the big E
- give someone the bird
- give someone the boot
- give someone the creeps
- give someone the elbow
- give someone (the) evils
- give someone the eye
- give someone the finger
- give someone the flick (or get the flick)
- give someone the glad eye
- give someone the hairy eyeball
- give someone their cards
- give someone their due