mulga wire
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mulga wire
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/'mΛlgə/ /'mΛlgə/
noun, Austral
The bush telegraph; the grapevine. Also mulga. (1899 —) .
K. S. Prichard The troops've had it all by mulga. They've heard too (1950).
M. Durack Local gossip flourished through a word-of-mouth medium referred to as 'the bushman's mulga wire' (1983).
[From Austral. mulga the outback, from earlier sense, type of acacia tree, from Aboriginal (Yuwaalaraay) malga + wire telegraph.]
/'mΛlgə/ /'mΛlgə/
noun, Austral
The bush telegraph; the grapevine. Also mulga. (1899 —) .
K. S. Prichard The troops've had it all by mulga. They've heard too (1950).
M. Durack Local gossip flourished through a word-of-mouth medium referred to as 'the bushman's mulga wire' (1983).
[From Austral. mulga the outback, from earlier sense, type of acacia tree, from Aboriginal (Yuwaalaraay) malga + wire telegraph.]
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