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Wooragurie

Wooragurie is the obsolete spelling of Wiradjuri.

Meaning of Wiradjuri

Proper noun

Wiradjuri

  1. The Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal suffixing language spoken by the Wiradjuri.
    • Mr. Günther’s and Mr. Watson’s treat of the same language, the Wīrādhurri, or, as some aborigines pronounce it, Wīrāgĕrĕ, a language spoken over a wide extent of country, from the Upper Namoi, the Castlereagh and Liverpool Plains in the north and east, to the Bawun or Darling west, and the Lachlan...1873, William Ridley, “Australian Languages and Traditions”, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 2

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Questions about Wooragurie

What is Wooragurie the obsolete spelling of?
Wooragurie is the obsolete spelling of Wiradjuri.

Words near Wooragurie in the dictionary

  1. woopty-do
  2. woopy do
  3. woopy doo
  4. woopy-doo
  5. Wooragee
  6. Wooragurie
  7. woorali
  8. woorara
  9. wooraras
  10. woorari
  11. Woorarra East

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Wooragurie (page history and authors); Wiradjuri (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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