boong

/bʊŋ/

Etymology

Suggested sources are * Malay bung (“brother”), * Indonesian dialectal bung (“brother”) * A New Guinea native language * An Aboriginal Australian language. Previously the word Binghi was used widely in similar fashion to the present-day use of the term Negro for peoples of African ancestry; see titles from this booklist and also writings of Xavier Herbert (e.g. in Capricornia), for example.

noun

  1. An Australian Aboriginal person.“I heard Bruce tell one of the drinkers he'd bought a place in Queensland where you could ‘still call a Boong a Boong’.”
  2. A native of New Guinea or Malaysia.“A couple of boongs came down and carried me up to the hut where our R.A.P. corporal was.”