Booing vs Boong - What's the difference?
booing | boong |
A disapproving exclamation by a member of an audience.
* 2010 , Peter Conrad, The Monthly , April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 52:
(Australia, slang, dated) A native of New Guinea.
* 1943 , Australian Army, Timor Souvenir'', in ''Khaki and Green: With the Australian Army at Home and Overseas ,
* 1998 , August Ibrum K. Kituai, My Gun, My Brother: The World of the Papua New Guinea Colonial Police, 1920-1960 ,
* 2000 , Prue Torney-Parlicki, Somewhere in Asia: War, Journalism and Australia's Neighbours 1941-75 ,
An Australian aboriginal.
* 1988 , Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines ,
* 2010 , Peter Temple, The Broken Shore ,
* 2011 , Linda Lee Rathbun, Tjuringa ,
As nouns the difference between booing and boong
is that booing is a disapproving exclamation by a member of an audience while boong is a native of New Guinea.As a verb booing
is present participle of lang=en.booing
English
Noun
(en noun)- The riot sometimes spills over into the audience, and Kosky bears the proud scars of the booings he has endured.
Verb
(head)boong
English
Noun
(en noun)page 119,
- A couple of boongs came down and carried me up to the hut where our R.A.P. corporal was.
page 282,
- During the War the soldiers generally referred to Papua New Guineans as “Boongs,” a name also given to black Americans. It is not a nice word, but is fair to say that the Aussies held the boongs in quite some affection during the War.
page 48,
- [Department of Information cameraman Damien] Parer's views on mateship encompassed both the Papuans and the soldiers: at one point he wrote ‘“no boongs , no battle”, implying that natives and diggers were equal partners in their fight against the Japanese.’71
page 92,
- I heard Bruce tell one of the drinkers he'd bought a place in Queensland where you could ‘still call a Boong' a ' Boong ’.
page 82,
- ‘I quit the feds because I didn't want to be a showpiece boong cop.’
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- “Yeah,” he said, “them boongs are a useless lot. The sooner they all die off, the better.”
- “And why is that?” Bill asked.
- “The Abos are nothing but a pack of boozers. All they wanna' do is get pissed.” The man glared at his beer. “Useless, they are.”