Murri
Appearance
See also: murri
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Gamilaraay mari (“Aboriginal man”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈmɐriː/
Noun
[edit]Murri (plural Murris or Murries)
- (Australian Aboriginal, Queensland, New South Wales) An indigenous Australian, especially one from Queensland or northern New South Wales.
- Synonym: Koori (Victoria, New South Wales)
- 1979, Thea Astley, Hunting the Wild Pineapple, Nelson, page 24:
- [O]n the veranda a fight started round the dart-board and two of the Murris threw punches until the barman thumped them apart.
- 1992, Bill Dodd, Broken Dreams, University of Queensland Press, unnumbered page:
- The local council wanted the Murries to live in town. (The council didn't care too much what the Murries themselves thought of this idea.)
- 1998, Margaret Henderson, Subdivisions of Suburbia, Andrew McCann (editor), Writing the Everyday, Australian Literary Studies, Volume 18, No. 4, University of Queensland Press, page 78,
- She can confidently walk through the mall, and make the politico-spatial connections between what she sees (Murries sitting and begging, crowds of Chinese-Australians, police lurking), what she has experienced in Eagleby (dispossessed whites, Murries unaware of their heritage), and what she has learnt from Roger, Kerry, and the 'Anyday Story'.
- 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 15:
- ‘The Murris don't work to whitefeller schedules. That's not the way it is.’
- 2006, Martin Cohen, No Holiday: 80 Places You Don't Want to Visit, The Disinformation Company Ltd., unnumbered page:
- The immediate background to the event was several massacres, the killings of Murries at Teewah beach, and the "clearing" of the Dawson Valley where other Murries had been fighting a sort of guerilla war against the white invasion of the grasslands.
Usage notes
[edit]Preferred by (some of) the people themselves over the terms aborigine and aboriginal, which are considered to be culturally loaded. Other terms are used in other regions.
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Italian
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Murri m or f by sense
- a surname
- Augusto Murri, Italian doctor
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