gurrnki
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[edit]Noun
[edit]gurrnki (plural gurrnkis)
- (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).
- 1978, P. Hanigan & R. Lindsay, No Tracks on the River