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wadjelas

wadjelas is the plural of wadjela.

Meaning of wadjela

Noun

wadjela (plural wadjelas)

  1. (Australia, Australian Aboriginal slang) A white person.
    • It was the wadjelas that created the ‘one drop’ rule, that defined anybody with a single bla(c)k ancestor as black. […] ‘Traditional’ is such loaded language, enshrining a belief that we are stuck in the past rather than being one of the most adaptable cultures in history, that some of us are using...2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2021

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Questions about wadjelas

What is wadjelas the plural of?
Wadjelas is the plural of wadjela.

Words near wadjelas in the dictionary

  1. wadings
  2. wadis
  3. Wadiyara Koli
  4. Wadjak
  5. wadjela
  6. wadjelas
  7. Wadjemup
  8. wadjet
  9. wadjets
  10. Wadle
  11. Wadleigh

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