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  • Frequently, as all manly men do (civilised as well as savage), he longed for the passion of the chase; and then he fished or harpooned turtle or hunted wallabies with spear and nulla-nulla, or cut "bees 'nests" from hollow trees, when his face would become distorted by stings and his "bingey" distended with choice honey, and he would without patronage bestow upon gratified female friends, old or brood comb.

    My Tropic Isle 1887

  • I seem to be vascillating between semi-horror at the very evidently bingey nature of quite a few of my purchases I thought I needed what?

    2005 November - Danya Ruttenberg 2005

  • I seem to be vascillating between semi-horror at the very evidently bingey nature of quite a few of my purchases I thought I needed what?

    Books are Fun To Read - Danya Ruttenberg 2005

  • The governments of developing countries, who instead of investing the cash we had given them for their goods (China) or their resources (Russia, Nigeria, the Gulf) at home, lent it back to us and our rulers so that we could live our splurgey, bingey lives and simultaneously fight unnecessary wars.

    Personal finance and money news, analysis and comment | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • Frequently, as all manly men do (civilised as well as savage), he longed for the passion of the chase; and then he fished or harpooned turtle or hunted wallabies with spear and nulla-nulla, or cut “bees’ nests” from hollow trees, when his face would become distorted by stings and his “bingey” distended with choice honey, and he would without patronage bestow upon gratified female friends, old or brood comb.

    My Tropic Isle 2003

  • Jinny” was sick “along a bingey” (stomach), and suggested that salt medicine might do her good.

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

  • "along a bingey" (stomach), and suggested that salt medicine might do her good.

    Confessions of a Beachcomber 1887

  • Jinny's bingey, "-- hence her distended condition.

    Confessions of a Beachcomber 1887

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