Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

jindyworobak

/dʒɪndiˈwɒrəbæk/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: jindy-worobak
IPA: /dʒɪndiˈwɒrəbæk/

32

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

2

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A proponent of the Jindyworobak Movement, an Australian literary movement of the 1930s and 1940s.

Example Sentences

"No, Brian Elliott's hobby-horse is not the Jindyworobaks' political links—it is his conviction that they are to be remembered and well respected for their awareness of Aboriginal myth and legend and for their understanding and symbolic poetical use of the alcheringa concept (the Dreamtime myth of the creation of geological Australia and its flora and fauna with the related religious and moral connotations of site-worship and animism) ."
"Some writers tried to recreate the mythology of the aboriginals, and the Jindyworobaks in particular endeavoured, with small success, to recall Alcheringa."

Etymology

R. Ingamells took this word from the Woiwurrung word jindyworobak meaning "to annex" or "to join"

Inflected Forms

Jindyworobaks (plural)

Synonyms

Jindy

Questions

How do you pronounce jindyworobak?: The recorded pronunciation is /dʒɪndiˈwɒrəbæk/.
What does jindyworobak mean?: A proponent of the Jindyworobak Movement, an Australian literary movement of the 1930s and 1940s.
Where does jindyworobak come from?: R. Ingamells took this word from the Woiwurrung word jindyworobak meaning "to annex" or "to join"

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