Part 37 (2/2)
<hw>Bulrush</hw>, n See Wonga and Raupo
<hw>Bung, to go</hw>, v to fail, to beco, o to s American thieves), is in very frequent use in Australia In Melbourne in the times that followed the collapse of the land-booone bung,” sc filed his schedule or made a coone bung,” sc closed its doors, collapsed
In parts of Australia, in New South Wales and Queensland, the word ”bung” is an aboriginal word lish origin, its frequency of use in Australia inal word, which for (qv), and in the aboriginal word inal word
1847 J D Lang, `Cooksland,' p 430:
”A place called U, or the dead houses”
[It is now a suburb of Brisbane, Hu]
1881 A C Grant, `Bush Life in Queensland,' vol ii p 175 [in Blacks' pigeon English]:
”Missis bail bong, ony can prighten (Missis not dead, only dreadfully frightened)”
1882 A J Boyd, `Old Colonials,' p 73:
”But just before you hands 'i on you” (ie he dies)
1885 H Finch-Hatton, `Advance Australia,' p: 142:
”Their [the blacks'] ordinary creed is very si (die) ht of their ae,' Dec 21, p 13, col 6:
”`Then soon go bong, , solemnly
`Die,' corrected Clare You ,' pursued Ning reflectively, `then you go to Heaven'”
(b) The slang word
1885 `Australian Printers' Keepsake,' p 40:
”He was i,' probably frous,' April 15 (by Oriel), p 13, col 2:
”Still change is humanity's lot It is but the space of a day Till cold is the darass, says the preacher, like grass it is withered away, And we gaze on a bank in the evening, and lo, in the us,' April 24, p 7, col 4:
”Banks '”
1893 `The Herald' (Melbourne), April 25, p 2, col 4:
”Perhaps Sydney may supply us with a useful exa brotherhood wrote the words `gone bung' under a notice on the Governht before the Police Court charged with da the bank's property to the extent of 3d The offender offered the Bench his views on the bank, but the raceful, and fined hia</hw> or <hw>Bungy</hw>, n a New Zealand settlers' corruption of the Maori word punga (qv)
<hw>Bunt</hw>, n a Queensland fungus growing on wheat, fetid when crushed Tilletia caries, Tul, NO Fungi