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gunyah

/guhn-yuh/US // ˈgʌn yə //UK // (ˈɡʌnjə) //

炮友

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Australian.

    • : an Aboriginal hut or shelter.
    • : any crude bush hut or shelter.

Examples

  • As we rode up we could see a gunyah made out of boughs, and a longish wing of dogleg fence, made light but well put together.

  • He went away to his gunyah then, and except doing one or two things for Starlight would not lift his hand for any one that day.

  • The only other sign of Stingaree was a hank of rope flung carelessly across the gunyah roof.

  • Bowen's answer was to hand his weapon over to Kilbride and to creep into the gunyah on his hands and knees.

  • Backing precipitately out of the gunyah, he turned round before rising upright—and remained upon his knees after all.