gabuuga

Wiradjuri

Alternative forms

• kábuka
• gabbuga
• kubbuga

Etymology

Compare Gamilaraay gawugaa "head".

Noun

gabuuga

1. egg
2. brain

Quotations

• 1846, Horatio Hale, Ethnography and philology, vol. VI of Reports of the United States Exploring Expedition, under the command of Charles Wilkes

  kábuka brain (see egg)
  ...
  kábuka egg

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• 1892, James Günther, Grammar and Vocabulary of the Aboriginal dialect called Wirradhuri, in John Fraser (ed.), An Australian Language

  Gabbuga—an egg; brains.

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• 1904, R. H. Mathews, The Wiradyuri and other languages of New South Wales, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 34

  Eggs .... .... .... kubbuga.

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