Language:
Australian:
Nuffer
English:
Seeing, for instance, a pair of snuffers, he told them that they were "Nuffer for candle," which the others not comprehending, he opened the snuffers, and holding up the fore-finger of his left hand, to represent a candle, made the motion of snuffing it.
Category:
artefact: European
Source:
Tench
Page:
189
Line:
20
Respelt:
NAFA
Part of speech:
ENGLISH
Date:
1793
Source Details:
Captain Watkin Tench: A Narrative of the expedition to Botany Bay (1789) and A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson 1788-1791 (1793): Republished at Sydney’s First Four Years (1961), Library of Australian History