nulla-nulla

Noun

nulla-nulla (plural nulla-nullas)

1. (Australia) A club used by Aboriginal Australians for hunting and fighting; a waddy.
   • When these two men get within hearing distance, they tap two nulla nullas, or other weapons together, and crouch down in the long grass, or among bushes, so as to be out of sight. The bush mob hear the tapping, but pretend they don't know what it is, and say to each other in the presence of the...1897, R.H. Mathews, “The Wandarral of the Richmond and Clarence River Tribes”, in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, volumes 7-10, page 38
   • After the growling the two men stood apart and hurled their boomerangs at each other, but these were easily fended off with the nulla-nullas. Then the two men came together and fought with nulla-nullas. They swung and thrust at each others' head, legs and arms, jumping about all over the place.1977, Dick Roughsey, Moon and Rainbow: the autobiography of an Aboriginal, Rigby, page 37

   Synonyms:

   waddy