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blackgins

blackgins is the plural 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.

Questions about blackgins

What is blackgins the plural of?
Blackgins is the plural of blackgin.

Words near blackgins in the dictionary

  1. blackfullas
  2. blackgame
  3. blackgames
  4. blackgaze
  5. blackgin
  6. blackgins
  7. blackgirl
  8. blackgrass
  9. blackguard
  10. blackguarded
  11. blackguardery

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