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brumby¹

  • /ˈbɹʌmbi/

Where it comes from

Unknown; perhaps from James Brumby, early Australian soldier and pastoralist, who is said to have left horses at his abandoned property.

noun brumbies

  1. Australia A wild or feral horse. I'm too weak to ride. I'd have to ride, because for one thing the white-ants have eaten the wheels of my buckboard, and my one cart-horse has gone bush with the brumbies.

Brumby²

Where it comes from

From Old Norse brunnr (“water well”)+býr (“farmstead, village”).

proper noun Brumbys

  1. countable, uncountable A former village in Brumby and Frodingham district, Frodingham parish, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom.
  2. countable, uncountable A locality in the Shire of East Gippsland, eastern Victoria, Australia.
  3. countable A habitational surname from Old Norse.

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@misc{brumby_2026,
  title = {brumby},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/brumby},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}