Meanings
plural Jindyworobaks
- A proponent of the Jindyworobak Movement, an Australian literary movement of the 1930s and 1940s.
Some writers tried to recreate the mythology of the aboriginals, and the Jindyworobaks in particular endeavoured, with small success, to recall Alcheringa.
2023, T. Inglis Moore, Social Patterns in Australian Literature, page 3031 more example
No, Brian Elliott's hobby-horse is not the Jindyworobaks' political links—it is his conviction that they are to be remembered and well respected for their awareness of Aboriginal myth and legend and for their understanding and symbolic poetical use of the alcheringa concept (the Dreamtime myth of the creation of geological Australia and its flora and fauna with the related religious and moral connotations of site-worship and animism) .
1980, Meanjin - Volume 39, page 402Synonyms: Jindy
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA proponent of the Jindyworobak Movement, an Australian literary movement of the 1930s and 1940s.
Origin
R. Ingamells took this word from the Woiwurrung word jindyworobak meaning "to annex" or "to join"
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