Associations to the word «Bunyip»
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Wiktionary
BUNYIP, noun. (Australia) A mythical Australian monster, said to inhabit swamps and lagoons.
BUNYIP, noun. (Australia) (slang) (obsolete) An imposter or con-man.
BUNYIP ARISTOCRACY, noun. (Australia) (derogatory) A peerage (hypothetical or proposed) in Australia; the new (in the colonial era) landed rich aspiring to aristocracy; snobbish Australian conservatives.
Wise words
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.