dugite
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Nyunga.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]dugite (plural dugites)
- Pseudonaja affinis, a highly venomous snake of southwest Australia.
- 1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 150:
- A small dugite crawled across the lawn from the golf links.
- 1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, Picador, published 2014, page 19:
- Dugites and bobtails rustled out there, and in the evenings, bronzed by the sun as it dunked into the sea, whole mobs of kangaroos lined the ridge […].