gurrnki

G2U1R1R1N1K5I1

noun

A ghost.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

noungurrnki (plural gurrnkis)

plural gurrnkis · alternative gungki

  1. 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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