Murri

murri English Etymology From en kld mari Aboriginal man. Pronunciation en /ˈmɐriː/ AU Noun s es en Australian Aboriginal Queensland NSW An indigenous Australian, especially one from Queensland or northern New South Wales. en Koori Victoria, New South Wales en 1979 Thea Astley Hunting the Wild Pineapple Nelson 24 [O]n the veranda a fight started round the dart-board and two of the Murris threw punches until the barman thumped them apart. en 1992 Bill Dodd Broken Dreams w:University of Queensland Press https://books.google.com.au/books?id=hNSN7IJ8hZ0C&pg=PP6&dq=%22murries%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi_r-Ow_Z70AhX9w4sBHZ-dAgoQ6AF6BAhbEAI#v=onepage&q=%22murries%22&f=false unnumbered The local council wanted the Murries to live in town. (The council didn't care too much what the Murries themselves thought of this idea.) 1998, Margaret Henderson, Subdivisions of Suburbia, Andrew McCann (editor), Writing the Everyday, Australian Literary Studies, Volume 18, No. 4, University of Queensland Press, page 78, She can confidently walk through the mall, and make the politico-spatial connections between what she sees (Murries sitting and begging, crowds of Chinese-Australians, police lurking), what she has experienced in Eagleby (dispossessed whites, Murries unaware of their heritage), and what she has learnt from Roger, Kerry, and the 'Anyday Story'. en 2002 Alex Miller (writer) Alex Miller Journey to the Stone Country Allen & Unwin 2003 15 ‘The Murris don't work to whitefeller schedules. That's not the way it is.’ en 2006 Martin Cohen No Holiday: 80 Places You Don't Want to Visit Disinformation (company) The Disinformation Company Ltd. https://archive.org/details/noholiday80place0000cohe/page/106/mode/1up 106 The immediate background to the event was several massacres, the killings of Murries at Teewah beach, and the "clearing" of the Dawson Valley where other Murries had been fighting a sort of guerilla war against the white invasion of the grasslands. Usage notes Preferred by (some of) the people themselves over the terms en aborigine and en aboriginal, which are considered to be culturally loaded. Other terms are used in other regions. Derived terms en Murri grapevine See also en Goori en Koori en Demonyms Australian demonyms Italian it: Etymology it Pronunciation Proper noun mfbysense it Further reading murri