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brumby

/ˈbɹʌmbi/

brumby noun: a wild or feral horse.

brumby: a wild or feral horse
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Noun

brumby (plural brumbies)

  1. (Australia) A wild or feral horse.
    • I'm too weak to ride. I'd have to ride, because for one thing the white-ants have eaten the wheels of my buckboard, and my one cart-horse has gone bush with the brumbies.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia, page 125
    • "It could mean one of two things," he said. "Either that help is coming, or that a herd of wild brumbies is passing somewhere near."1943, H. Lorna Bingham, The Lost Tribe, Sydney: Winn and Co., page 31, column 2

Proper noun capitalized: Brumby

Brumby (countable and uncountable, plural Brumbys)

  1. A former village in Brumby and Frodingham district, Frodingham parish, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom.
  2. A locality in the Shire of East Gippsland, eastern Victoria, Australia.
  3. (countable) A habitational surname from Old Norse.

brumby meaning in Tamil

brumby in Tamil

பயிலாவிலங்கு, கல்லாமா

Forms of brumby

Noun
pluralbrumbies
Proper noun
pluralBrumbys

Origin of brumby

Unknown; perhaps from James Brumby, early Australian soldier and pastoralist, who is said to have left horses at his abandoned property.

From Old Norse brunnr (“water well”)+býr (“farmstead, village”).

Words formed from brumby

Questions about brumby

What does brumby mean?
Brumby means a wild or feral horse.
What is brumby in Tamil?
Brumby in Tamil is பயிலாவிலங்கு, கல்லாமா. See Brumby meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is brumby?
Brumby can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce brumby?
Brumby is pronounced /ˈbɹʌmbi/.
What is the plural of brumby?
The plural of brumby is brumbies.

Words near brumby in the dictionary

  1. Brumbaugh
  2. Brumbaughs
  3. Brumbelow
  4. Brumbelows
  5. brumbies
  6. brumby
  7. Brumby Plains
  8. brume
  9. brumes
  10. Brumett
  11. Brumetts

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