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Humpy vs Gunyah - What's the difference?

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Gunyah is a synonym of humpy.



In australia terms the difference between humpy and gunyah

is that humpy is a hut or temporary shelter made from bark and tree branches, especially for Aborigines while gunyah is a traditional Aboriginal dwelling made of bark and sticks.

As an adjective humpy

is characterised by humps, uneven.

humpy

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

(er)
  • Characterised by humps, uneven.
  • * 1907 , Edith M.H Baylor, A Little Prospector , page 60,
    • A very weary small boy and a weary father and mother were soon asleep in the hardest and humpiest bed ever made.
  • * 1988 , John Gunnell, Chevrolet Pickups, 1946-1972: How to Identify, Select and Restore Chevrolet Collector Light Trucks, Panels and El Caminos , page 19,
    • The cab height was reduced, but the front fenders looked higher and humpier .
  • * 2011 , Steven Vogel, Comparative Biomechanics: Life's Physical World , page 255,
    • The sand dollars adjust the gaps between individuals depending on flow speed, and populations from more sheltered locations consist of slightly humpier (more cambered) individuals with greater lift coefficients.
  • Muscular; hunky.
  • * 2010 , John Butler, Ships That Pass in the Night , page 90,
    • On a Friday night, Tom went upstairs to the second-floor show bar at the club to see the final show, and decided that Oscar had really underpraised the dancers – as each one entered, he appeared to be even humpier and better-hung than the ones before.
  • Hunched, bent over.
  • * 1907 , P. G. Wodehouse, Herbert Westbrook, Not George Washington: An Autobiographical Novel , 2008, page 107,
    • Tell you what it was just like. Reminded me of it even at the time: that picture of Napoleon coming back from Moscow. The Reverend was Napoleon, and we were the generals; and if there were three humpier men walking the streets of London at that moment I should have liked to have seen them.
  • Sulky; irritable.
  • * 1996 , Mark Kinkead-Weekes, D.H. Lawrence: Triumph to Exile, 1912-1922 , Volume 1, page 55,
    • As the rain poured down; and Frieda went on and on about the children; and Lawrence got humpier' and ' humpier but kept asking ‘a dozen times a day in all keys, are you miserable’ (i. 534); it must have been the Christmas misery all over again.
    Derived terms
    * humpily * humpiness

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (Brisbane region) , perhaps influenced by (hump).

    Noun

    (humpies)
  • (Australia) A hut or temporary shelter made from bark and tree branches, especially for Aborigines.
  • * 1984 , Maxwell John Charlesworth (editor), Religion in Aboriginal Australia: An Anthology , page 129,
    • I dreamed that a boy child walked past all the other humpies [Australian white term for native huts] in the camp and kept coming until he got to my house. He beat on the bark wall.
  • *1961 , (Nene Gare), The Fringe Dwellers , Text Classics 2012, p. 31:
  • *:Trilby was the first to wake, her face barred with sunlight that slipped through the inadequate walls of the humpy .
  • * 1988 , Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked , 1995, Angus & Robertson, p. 257,
    • There weren?t that many blacks about, but a lot of humpies – at times it must have been a fairly big camp.
  • * 2003 , Frank G. Clarke, Australia in a Nutshell: A Narrative History , page 215,
    • Evicted men and their families lived wherever they could, and shanty towns of hessian-sack humpies' grew up in Sydney?s southern suburbs on vacant crown land: the largest being at Brighton-le-Sands, Rockdale, Long Bay and La Perouse. In such camps, unemployed huddled for warmth in ' humpies while, closer to the city, others squatted in caves in the Domain around the local beauty spot known as Mrs Macquarie?s chair.
    Synonyms
    * gunyah

    gunyah

    English

    Alternative forms

    * gunya

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia) A traditional Aboriginal dwelling made of bark and sticks.
  • * 1861 , , The Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition: An Account of the Crossing the Continent of Australia from Coopers Creek to Carpentaria , page 4,
    • The following day we reached the main creek ; and knowing where there was a fine water-hole and native gunyahs , we went there, intending to save what was left of our flour and dried meat, for the purpose of making another attempt to reach Mount Hopeless.
  • * 1938 , , unnumbered page,
    • Still standing as he was, some seconds later he chuckled again to see her pass like a flash from the jungle to the gunyah'. But in spite of chuckling he was afraid to advance; indeed he even avoided staring at the ' gunyah ; and though the desire to play the faun to this nymph was in his heart, thought of flight was uppermost in his mind.
  • * 1994 , Rita Huggins, Jackie Huggins, Auntie Rita , page 8,
    • We lived in humpies, or gunyahs', that the men built from tree branches, bark and leaves. Gum resin held them together. We would sleep inside the ' gunyahs , us children arguing for the warm place closest to Mama, a place usually kept for the youngest children.

    See also

    * mia mia * humpy

    References

    * http://www.anu.edu.au/andc/ozwords/April%202001/Mia-Mia.html English borrowed terms