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whitefulla

whitefulla is the alternative form of whitefella.

Meaning of whitefella

Noun

whitefella (plural whitefellas)

  1. (chiefly Australian Aboriginal) A white person (Caucasian person), especially white settler in Australia, especially a man (especially as opposed to an Aboriginal Australian).
    • The learning isn′t written on paper as whitefellas′ knowledge is. We carry it instead in our heads and we′re talking from our hearts, for the land. You fellas, whitefellas, put us in the back all the time, like we′ve got no language for the land. But we′ve got the true story for the land.2003, transcript, in Peter McConchie (recorder), Elders: Wisdom from Australia′s Indigenous Leaders, page 18
    Synonyms:
    balanda, gubbah, migaloo

Forms of whitefulla

pluralwhitefullas

Origin of whitefulla

From white + fulla.

Questions about whitefulla

What is whitefulla the alternative form of?
Whitefulla is the alternative form of whitefella.

Words near whitefulla in the dictionary

  1. Whitefords
  2. Whitefriar
  3. Whitefriars
  4. whitefront
  5. whitefronts
  6. whitefulla
  7. whitefullas
  8. whitegirl
  9. whitegirls
  10. whitegoods
  11. whitegraft

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whitefulla (page history and authors); whitefella (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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