yorga
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A woman, especially an Aboriginal woman.
Example Sentences
- "1910, E. Hassell, My Dusky Friends At last he took a third york. She was a foolish young thing, but very fond of him ... he paid her more attention than the generality of husbands."
- "1968, W. H. Douglas, Aboriginal Language of south-west Australia ‘Yokas’ is ‘girls’ (Note the English plural suffix on yoka)."
- "1981, Archie Weller, Day of Dog ‘Not much work going ’ere, orright, drinkin’ gabba and smokin’. Where’s all the yorgas?’ Pretty Boy grins."
- "1982, J. Davis, Kullark I’ll tell you what ’e’ll do, e’ll finish up marryin’ some Wetjala yok, ’ave blue-eyed kids and ’e won’t want nothing to do with us."
- "1986, A. Weller, Going Home ‘Yeah. Us blokes are fuckin’ muritch,’ said Morry lazily ... ‘Ssh, youse mob. Couple yorgas comin’ in.’"
- "1991, G. Ward, Unna you fullas Their mother had told them he met a yorga, whom he was mardong for."