bommie
/ˈbɒmi/noun Australian informal
A submerged offshore reef: it’s an isolated bommie that rises 30m from the sandy seabed...
- He led us out into the blue to the bommie, which rose from the depths.
- Our dive site was the top of a bommie, 25 metres deep, a short swim away from the wall.
- It's is a small bommie at the end of the reef, joined by a low saddle of coral.
Origin
1940s: abbreviation of bombora.
- good-enough
- good-enough Morgan
- good-enough mother
- good even
- good evening
- good fairy
- good faith
- good-faith residence
- good-father
- goodfella
- goodfellowhood
- good-fellowish
- good-fellowly
- good fellowship
- good-fitting
- good folk
- good form
- good-for-naught
- good-for-nothing
- good-for-nothingness
- good-for-nought
- good for (or on) you (or him, her, etc.)!
- good-for-something
- good for the soul
- Good Friday