gurrnki

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gurrnki (plural gurrnkis)

  1. (Australian Aboriginal) A ghost.
    • 1978, P. Hanigan & R. Lindsay, No Tracks on the River
      Budgie said ‘I don’t want no gungki getting at me.’
    • 1993, E. Crawford, Over my Tracks
      I tell you what, the first time we saw the nuns with their habits, we thought they were gurrnkis (ghosts).