wilgie
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A red ochre traditionally used as a pigment by the Aboriginal Nyunga people.
Australian usage; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "[…] round these fires were squatted the dark forms of men and women, unclad, save with the loose folds of an opossum rug, and unadorned save with a fish or other bone thrust through the cartilage of the nose, or the pendulums of the ears, and with wilgie and with paint."
- "A picture of one mourning for her brother shows her hair all screwed up in little knobs with wilgie clay and fat."
- "While she was working Coomal came along with wilgie on his face and embraced her."
Etymology
Usage
Inflected Forms
wilgee (alternative)
wilgi (alternative)