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begone

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
woroo, woroo
English JS Main: 
begone
English: 
It is very probable that this part of the dance is used as a sort of defiance, as all the natives which were seen when we first arrived at Port Jackson always joined this sort of dance to their vociferations of "woroo, woroo," go away.
Category: 
motion
Source: 
King in Hunter
Page: 
406
Line: 
13
Respelt: 
wåru-wåru!
Part of speech: 
verb
Date: 
1792
Source Details: 
Originally published as An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island,with the Discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and in the Southern Ocean, since the Publication of Phillip's Voyage, compiled from the Official Papers including the Journals of Governors Phillip and King, and of Lieut. Ball; and the Voyages from the First Sailing of the Sirius in 1787, to the Return of that Ship's Company to England in 1792. By John Hunter, Esqr., Post Captain in His Majesty's Navy. Illustrated with Seventeen Maps, Charts, Views, & Other Embellishments Drawn on the Spot by Captains Hunter & Bradley, Lieutenant Dawes, & Governor King. London. Printed For John Stockdale, Piccadilly, January 1, 1793.

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