gin Offensive term for an Aboriginal woman. It is derived from the Dharuk word diyin, meaning woman, or wife, but it has come to be used as a highly derogatory term, often in connection with sexual exploitation of Aboriginal women by whites.
gin is actually a word [in] our own language, our own lingo and it means a woman," she said. "But it has been taken and used in a very derogatory way to describe us women who are black.
'Aborigine' is a noun for an Aboriginal person (male or female).
Noun. gin jockey (plural gin jockeys) (Australia, slang) Synonym of gin burglar.
Noun. blackgin (plural blackgins) (Australia, derogatory) An Aboriginal woman.
Gin as we know it today, is a distilled alcohol that by definition must include the characteristic aroma and flavour of the juniper berry. Even the name itself is derived from the Dutch word for juniper 'genever', or the French 'genièvre'.
The station was sold, although exactly when is unknown, to Arthur and Alfred Brown who renamed it Gingin, either because they came from Gingin in Western Australia, or from the Indigenous word chin chin meaning “thick scrub”.
Terms such as half-caste, full-blood, natives, blacks, darkies, blackfellas, and other more offensive terms were often communicated in a disparaging and racist manner. For many Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples, offensive terms can cause reactions such as distress, anger and resentment.
or ab·o. Australian Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. noun, plural Ab·os. a contemptuous term used to refer to an Australian Aboriginal person.
Plonk, chardy and the goon of fortune
Plonk is perhaps Australia's best-known word for alcohol.
Pap(a) is also found as 'mother', mainly in Victoria. Other kinship roots (for grandparents) have been shown to have a split distribution with one root dominating in the east and one in the west for what is apparently a single proto-meaning.
Gubbah, also spelt gubba, is a term used by some Aboriginal people to refer to white people or non-Aboriginal people. The Macquarie Dictionary has it as "n. Colloq. (derog.) an Aboriginal term for a white man".
Aboriginal people refer to an Elder as 'Aunty' or 'Uncle'. However, it is recommended that non-Aboriginal people check the appropriateness of their use of these terms as referring to an Elder or leader as Aunty or Uncle may not be appropriate for an outsider unless a strong relationship has been established.
Guide to Australian Gin
A common characteristic of Australian gins is their highly experimental nature, with many distillers choosing to barrel age their products and use highly unusual botanicals like shiraz grapes, which results in plenty of differentiated product options available in the market.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun A native Australian woman: originally used in Tasmania, but later adopted in Australia south of the Murray. North of the Murray the term gin was in use. Both terms are now used without geographical restriction.
65 Charles Dickens gave the meaning to British readers in 1887 explaining, '“gin” or “lubra” is the generic title of all married black women in Australia'.
Koori (or Koorie)
Koori is a term denoting an Aboriginal person of southern New South Wales or Victoria.
Waratah is the Aboriginal word for 'Beautiful' -how they got this name is no surprise.
To make direct eye contact can be viewed as being rude, disrespectful or even aggressive.To convey polite respect, the appropriate approach would be to avert or lower your eyes in conversation. Observe the other person's body language.
As part of funerary ritual, certain Aboriginal cultures in Central Australia, Arnhem Land and Cape York Peninsula prohibit anyone from speaking a person's name during the mourning period after their death.
'Aborigine' is generally perceived as insensitive, because it has racist connotations from Australia's colonial past, and lumps people with diverse backgrounds into a single group. You're more likely to make friends by saying 'Aboriginal person', 'Aboriginal' or 'Torres Strait Islander'.
' In the 16th Century, the Dutch created a medicinal alcohol using Juniper as the main ingredient. The name “Genever” derives from the Latin for juniper.
Gin & tonic to fight malaria
When they came to India, they brought gin with them, and soon they were struggling with malaria. By the 1840s British citizens and soldiers in India were using 700 tons of cinchona bark annually for their protective doses of quinine.
Gin was nicknamed mother's ruins because a lot of women had an addiction to the cheap alcoholic drink. Back in those days they didn't have the information we do now. Consequently, when they became pregnant, they would continue to down their sorrows with gin.