Etymology

witchety

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Today it means: Any of certain Acacia species. Full definition →

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The story

Borrowed from some Pama-Nyungan language (compare Arabana witjuti (“witchety bush”)).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.