bunyip
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Show 'em a good scarecrow or tatty dooly, as the Scotch folk call it, and they'd think it was what they call a bunyip What's a bunyip What they calls a debble-debble, sir.
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- noun Australian An imaginary monster inhabiting swamps and lagoons.
- noun Australian An imposter; a fake.
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Show 'em a good scarecrow or tatty dooly, as the Scotch folk call it, and they'd think it was what they call a bunyip What's a bunyip What they calls a debble-debble, sir.
— King o' the Beach A Tropic Tale -
Then, grasping the fact that it was done as a joke, he burst into a loud guffaw, slapped his thighs and cried, "Bunyip-- bunyip!"
— King o' the Beach A Tropic Tale -
Then there is the bunyip -- or, rather, there isn't the bunyip, so far as we know as yet.
— Peeps At Many Lands: Australia -
The bunyip is the legendary animal of Australia.
— Peeps At Many Lands: Australia -
The blacks believe profoundly in the bunyip, and white children, when very young, are scared with bunyip tales.
— Peeps At Many Lands: Australia
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- Wemba-wemba (Aboriginal language of southeast Australia) banib.
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/ (bŭnˈyĭp)/
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