Meanings
noundugite (plural dugites)
plural dugites
- Pseudonaja affinis, a highly venomous snake of southwest Australia.
A small dugite crawled across the lawn from the golf links.
1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 1501 more example
Dugites and bobtails rustled out there, and in the evenings, bronzed by the sun as it dunked into the sea, whole mobs of kangaroos lined the ridge […].
1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, Picador, published 2014, page 19
Origin
From Nyunga.
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dugite. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dugite
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