blackgin
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blackgin
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From black + Dharug dyin (“woman”) (David Nash, "Placenames evidence for NSW pidgin" in Felicity Meakins, Carmel O'Shannessy (eds) Loss and Renewal: Australian Languages Since Colonization, Walter de Gruyter, 2016, p.133.) https://books.google.ca/books?id=spjUCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA133&lpg=PA133&dq=%22blackgin%22&source=bl&ots=PAH4wZMnI1&sig=6pQWiSTFpQV6FcU9ZFhRzaTkbbQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwim-YfEg9vMAhUK-GMKHccqA_0Q6AEI5AEwLw#v=onepage&q=%22blackgin%22&f=false
noun blackgins · black gin · black-gin · gin
- An Aboriginal woman. […] a man has got to go on day after day, week after week, year after year, fighting devils of loneliness and worse—with nothing to look at except miles and miles of stark staring gum trees and black, smelling gidgee and dead-finish scrub—and never the glimpse of a woman—not counting black gins—to r
- The plant Kingia australis.
Talk about this word "blackgin." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/blackgin. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. blackgin. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/blackgin "blackgin." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/blackgin.Cite this
@misc{blackgin_2026,
title = {blackgin},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/blackgin},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
