boong

Word origin

Previously the word Binghi was used widely in similar fashion to the present-day use of the term Negro for peoples of African ancestry; see titles from this booklist and also writings of Xavier Herbert (e.g. in Capricornia), for example.

Used in a sentence

• “I heard Bruce tell one of the drinkers he'd bought a place in Queensland where you could ‘still call a Boong a Boong’.”

• “‘[…]I quit the feds because I didn't want to be a showpiece boong cop.’”

• “A couple of boongs came down and carried me up to the hut where our R.A.P. corporal was.”

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0