Jindyworobak

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English

Etymology

R. Ingamells took this word from the Woiwurrung word jindyworobak meaning "to annex" or "to join"[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

Jindyworobak (plural Jindyworobaks)

  1. A proponent of the Jindyworobak Movement, an Australian literary movement of the 1930s and 1940s.
    Synonym: (informal) Jindy
    • 1980, Meanjin - Volume 39, page 402:
      No, Brian Elliott's hobby-horse is not the Jindyworobaks' political links—it is his conviction that they are to be remembered and well respected for their awareness of Aboriginal myth and legend and for their understanding and symbolic poetical use of the alcheringa concept (the Dreamtime myth of the creation of geological Australia and its flora and fauna with the related religious and moral connotations of site-worship and animism) .
    • 2023, T. Inglis Moore, Social Patterns in Australian Literature, page 303:
      Some writers tried to recreate the mythology of the aboriginals, and the Jindyworobaks in particular endeavoured, with small success, to recall Alcheringa.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Australian Aboriginal Words in English - Their Origin and Meaning, 1990, pg168