Meanings
plural gurrnkis · alternative gungki
- Australian AboriginalA ghost.
1978, P. Hanigan & R. Lindsay, No Tracks on the River Budgie said ‘I don’t want no gungki getting at me.’
1 more example
1993, E. Crawford, Over my Tracks I tell you what, the first time we saw the nuns with their habits, we thought they were gurrnkis (ghosts).
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