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==English== |
==English== |
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===Etymology=== |
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From {{etyl|aus-pam|en}} ([[Jagara]]) {{term|dili||coarse grass; small fibre bag or basket}} <!---lang=yxg--->(also ''dilly''). |
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===Alternative forms=== |
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* [[dillybag]] |
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* [[dilly-bag]] |
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===Noun=== |
===Noun=== |
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{{en-noun|sg=[[dilly]] [[bag]]}} |
{{en-noun|sg=[[dilly]] [[bag]]}} |
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# {{Australia}} A traditional Australian Aboriginal string bag, made from twisted [[bark]] [[fibre]]s and used for gathering food. |
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#* '''1885''', [[w:Rosa Campbell Praed|Rosa Campbell Praed]]'', ''Australian Life: Black and White'', [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0607211h.html Gutenberg Australia eBook #0607211], |
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#*: I learned, too, at the camp to plait '''dilly-bags''', to chop sugar-bags (otherwise hives of native bees) out of trees, to make drinking-vessels from gourds, and to play the jews′-harp. |
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#* '''1968''', [[w:Geoffrey Blainey|Geoffrey Blainey]], ''Across a Red World'', [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=dSg-AAAAMAAJ&q=%22dilly+bag%22|%22dilly+bags%22+soldier+-intitle:%22digger|diggers%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22dilly+bag%22|%22dilly+bags%22+soldier+-intitle:%22digger|diggers%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5AI9T9n5MI-NigL946DQAQ&redir_esc=y page 132], |
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#*: The woman carried two small battered suitcases, fastened with rope, and a plastic '''dilly bag'''; the man carried only a scent of garlic. |
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#* '''2008''', Doug Wakeling, ''Curse the Bells'', [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=HK15pInydqgC&pg=PA164&dq=%22dilly+bag%22|%22dilly+bags%22+soldier+-intitle:%22digger|diggers%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=B_k8T4iFNrDSiAKk6tCcAQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22dilly%20bag%22|%22dilly%20bags%22%20soldier%20-intitle%3A%22digger|diggers%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 164], |
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#*: She handed him a slip of paper with the address of her uncle′s property in Penrith an outlying suburb of Sydney and he tucked it into his '''dilly bag''' to record in his diary for safekeeping. |
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[[Category:English terms derived from Australian Aboriginal languages]] |
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Revision as of 13:48, 16 February 2012
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "aus-pam" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. (Jagara) (deprecated template usage) dili (also dilly).
Alternative forms
Noun
dilly bag (plural dilly bags)
- Template:Australia A traditional Australian Aboriginal string bag, made from twisted bark fibres and used for gathering food.
- 1885, Rosa Campbell Praed, Australian Life: Black and White, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0607211,
- I learned, too, at the camp to plait dilly-bags, to chop sugar-bags (otherwise hives of native bees) out of trees, to make drinking-vessels from gourds, and to play the jews′-harp.
- 1885, Rosa Campbell Praed, Australian Life: Black and White, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0607211,
- Template:Australia Any similar loose bag with a large strap, normally made of soft cloth.
- 1968, Geoffrey Blainey, Across a Red World, page 132,
- The woman carried two small battered suitcases, fastened with rope, and a plastic dilly bag; the man carried only a scent of garlic.
- 2008, Doug Wakeling, Curse the Bells, page 164,
- She handed him a slip of paper with the address of her uncle′s property in Penrith an outlying suburb of Sydney and he tucked it into his dilly bag to record in his diary for safekeeping.
- 1968, Geoffrey Blainey, Across a Red World, page 132,