Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A native Australian woman: originally used in Tasmania, but later adopted in Australia south of the Murray. North of the Murray the term gin was in use. Both terms are now used without geographical restriction.
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- noun Australia, now racially offensive A female
Aboriginal Australian .
Etymologies
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Examples
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* 'Gin, 'or' lubra '-- the female Australian aboriginal.
Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 Louis Becke 1884
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Next morning I became ill, with violent pains and headache, which incapacitated me for some days, during which time a lubra named Moira sat beside me, apparently anxious to do what lay in her power to ease my sufferings.
Adventures in Southern Seas A Tale of the Sixteenth Century George Forbes
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The sensitive, intelligent face of the manager of Carlisle, Eddie Page, who had married his illiterate, inarticulate lubra.
A Town Like Alice Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1950
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She's got two girls employed in the ice-cream parlour, and one lubra.
A Town Like Alice Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1950
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She's got two girls employed in the ice-cream parlour, and one lubra.
A Town Like Alice Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1950
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I met the same lubra and child again near the same place that I before met her, but she did not this time attempt to fire the grass round me.
McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia John McKinlay
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A short way on further I met, or rather overtook, another lubra with two children; she tried at first to conceal herself but when she saw that she was observed she immediately set to work to burn the grass round us in all directions.
McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia John McKinlay
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A fat, middle-aged lubra, a black golliwog of a woman, laid the table and presently appeared with two plates of the inevitable steak with two eggs on the top, and a pot of strong tea.
A Town Like Alice Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1950
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Mr. Hodgkinson saw one native and his lubra up the creek but had little conversation.
McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia John McKinlay
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The sensitive, intelligent face of the manager of Carlisle, Eddie Page, who had married his illiterate, inarticulate lubra.
A Town Like Alice Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1950
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