Mullumbimby
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jang: mouth
jingawahlu: greetings
jinung: foot
jinungalehla: standing
jiraman: kangaroo
jugi jugi: domestic chook
juhm: cigarette/smoke
julabai: piss
kalwunybah: place of lyrebirds
kanakas: Pacific Islander labourers (offensive)
kibum: moon
kipper: young, youthful (as in young initiates)
koruhmburuhm: magpie
kubbil: carpet snake
mibun: wedgetail eagle
mil: eye
milbong: eye gone (blind)
minjehleyni: laughing, happy
minya: meat
mooki: ghosts
mulanyin: blue heron
Murbah: short for Murwillumbah
Murri/Murrie: Aboriginal person from most of southern Queensland
muttika: motor car
ning: quiet, silent
Njuruyn: emu
nurrung: the colour blue, here implying sky
Old People: ancestors (widespread)
onetime: a) soon, promptly or b) used for emphasis
oodgeroo: paperbark tree
pooning: echidna
porky: porcupine
talga: music
taran: frog
themfla: those people (Aboriginal English, widespread)
ugari: shellfish, ‘pipi’
warrigal: dingo or domestic dog (Aboriginal English, widespread)
wirringin: winter
womba: insane or very silly
yanbillilla: walking or going home
yarndi: marijuana
yarraman: horse (Aboriginal English, widespread)
yufla: people being addressed (Aboriginal English, widespread)
yumba: home or house
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