dilly bag
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dilly bag
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Borrowed from Yagara dili (“coarse grass; small fibre bag or basket”).
noun dilly bags · dillybag · dilly-bag
- A traditional Australian Aboriginal string bag, made from twisted bark fibres and used for gathering food. I learned, too, at the camp to plait dilly-bags, to chop sugar-bags (otherwise hives of native bees) out of trees, to make drinking-vessels from gourds, and to play the jews′-harp.
- Any similar loose bag with a large strap, normally made of soft cloth. The woman carried two small battered suitcases, fastened with rope, and a plastic dilly bag; the man carried only a scent of garlic.
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Synonym of ditty bag.
Similar: ditty bag
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