gurrnki

English

Alternative forms

• gungki

Noun

gurrnki (plural gurrnkis)

1. (Australian Aboriginal) A ghost.
   • 1978, P. Hanigan & R. Lindsay, No Tracks on the River

     Budgie said ‘I don’t want no gungki getting at me.’

   • 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).