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black-gin

black-gin is the alternative form of blackgin.

Meaning of blackgin

Noun

blackgin (plural blackgins)

  1. (Australia, derogatory) An Aboriginal woman.
    • […] a man has got to go on day after day, week after week, year after year, fighting devils of loneliness and worse—with nothing to look at except miles and miles of stark staring gum trees and black, smelling gidgee and dead-finish scrub—and never the glimpse of a woman—not counting black gins—to...1915, Rosa Praed, chapter 7, in Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: A Story of Australian Life, London: Hutchinson
  2. The plant Kingia australis.

Forms of black-gin

pluralblack-gins

Questions about black-gin

What is black-gin the alternative form of?
Black-gin is the alternative form of blackgin.

Words near black-gin in the dictionary

  1. black-footed rock wallaby
  2. black-fronted dotterel
  3. black-fronted dotterels
  4. black-ganger
  5. black-gangers
  6. black-gin
  7. black-gins
  8. black-gloved wallabies
  9. black-gloved wallaby
  10. black-haired
  11. black-handed gibbon

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