koori

plural kooris

1. alternativeAlternative form of Koori.

plural Kooris · plural Koories · alternative koori · alternative Koorie · alternative Goori · alternative Goorie

1. New South WalesAustralian Aboriginal; chiefly Victoria; Australian Aboriginal; chiefly VictoriaAn indigenous Australian.First known use 19th c.

   He was getting old fast, the way Goorie blokes did, especially in little shitbox joints like Durrongo.

   2018, Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip, University of Queensland Press, published 2023, page 18

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   C. S. of Stawell wrote to ‘point out some facts associated with Aboriginal myths of Dreamtime’. He denied a Koori presence (‘no Aboriginals ever entered the Grampians due to evil spirits’) and repeated a dominant pioneer folk myth that the rock-art was painted by ‘a French artist who had a great appreciation of Aboriginal art of central Australia’.

   1996, Sarah Nuttall, Text, Theory, Space: Post-Colonial Representations and Identity, page 175

   Stories from the Koori oral tradition show how differently the shared experience is perceived by indigenous and settler Australians.

   1998, Untold Stories: Memories and Lives of Victorian Kooris, page xix

   Reliable population figures do not exist, but it [is] likely there were never large numbers: perhaps 18000 to 20000 Kooris across Victoria, perhaps 700 Wathaurong.

   2009, Richard Everist, Geelong and the Bellarine Peninsula: The Spirit of Place, page 15