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From an autonym of the Bunjalung peoples of far northern New South Wales and south east Queensland, originally distinguished from the Koori peoples to their south. (See quotations for more information.)

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Examples

  • She had so far improved me, for the time, that though I was angry with her, I felt ashamed, and with a short ‘Goori!’

    David Copperfield 2007

  • Governor to join with the Royal African Company in an attack on the French factory at Goori, at Gambia.

    The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers Philip Gosse 1919

  • She had so far improved me, for the time, that though I was angry with her, I felt ashamed, and with a short “Goori!

    XXIV. My First Dissipation 1917

  • She had so far improved me, for the time, that though I was angry with her, I felt ashamed, and with a short 'Goori!'

    David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

  • She had so far improved me, for the time, that though I was angry with her, I felt ashamed, and with a short 'Goori!'

    David Copperfield 1850

  • She had so far improved me, for the time, that though I was angry with her, I felt ashamed, and with a short 'Goori!'

    David Copperfield Charles Dickens 1841

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