brumby
/ˈbɹʌmbi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.22 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A former village in Brumby and Frodingham district, Frodingham parish, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "I'm too weak to ride. I'd have to ride, because for one thing the white-ants have eaten the wheels of my buckboard, and my one cart-horse has gone bush with the brumbies."
- ""It could mean one of two things," he said. "Either that help is coming, or that a herd of wild brumbies is passing somewhere near.""
- "He captures brumbies, the wild horses of the outback, running them down on motorcycles and shipping them to the city where they are butchered for pet food."
- "If the latter situation prevails, brumbies can be developed into valuable stockhorses, either for use on the local property or for sale in other areas. Whatever the condition of a captured brumby, there is always the potential of selling it for pet food, fish bait, or even for human consumption."
- "Harry Farquharson said there were two or three springs and that the horses were “bloody wild”. He said there were probably about 300 and they were good horses, a long way above the average brumby."
Etymology
Unknown; perhaps from James Brumby, early Australian soldier and pastoralist, who is said to have left horses at his abandoned property.
Origin
Word Breakdown
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Usage
Inflected Forms
brumbies (plural)
Brumbys (plural)