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Definition of Goburra
1. a bird [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Goburra
Literary usage of Goburra
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"... and goburra), the aboriginal name for the bird called the Laughing-Jackass (qv).
The first spelling is that under which the aboriginal name now survives ..."
2. The Bulletin Story Book: A Selection of Stories and Literary Sketches from by Bulletin (Sydney, Alfred George Stephens (1901)
"... but have been called back from such fantasy by a rude, hilarious shout overhead
among the gum-trees. It is the laughing-jackass—the goburra. ..."
3. Official Year Book of New South Wales by Australian Bureau of Statistics, New South Wales Bureau of Statistics and Economics (1902)
"... etc.,, includes one very remarkable specimen, viz., the great kingfisher,
goburra, or laughing-jackass, so called from its extraordinary mocking laugh. ..."
4. Songs and Verses by Philip Durham Lorimer (1901)
"... And from the covers wake the curlew shy, The goburra choir, with all their
young ones learning, Close that fair scene beneath a starlit sky. ..."
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