Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus./N.Z.) the stomach; corpulence; also attrib.

[1851		D. Mackenzie Ten Years in Aus. 140: They lay [...] rubbing their bellies, exclaiming. ‘Cabonn buggel along bingee’ (that is, I am very sick in the stomach)].
1859		H. Kingsley Recollections of G. Hamlyn (1891) 196: Don’t you fret your bingy, boss; he’ll be as good a man as his father yet.
1865		H. Kingsley Hillyars and Burtons (1870) 154: I’ll have your bingy; strike me blind as a moepork if I don’t have your bingy!
1878		J.H. Nicholson ‘Bunkum in Parvo’ in Opal Fever 100: O’er his bingie [I] strewed the tea— [...] The sugar at his feet I laid.
1885		Bulletin (Sydney) 16 May 12/2: ‘Incredible as it may seem, the fellow drank it all but about a cupful, but this effectively hitched him up, and so he lost his wager.’ What a pity that a man with so big a heart, shouldn’t have owned a bigger bingey!
1889		Dead Bird (Sydney) 26 Oct. 3/3: Alderman — had evidently a load on what the only M’Elhone styles his ‘bingie’.
1894		Truth (Sydney) 19 Feb. 3/8: Starving bingie, famine-darted.
1894		Truth (Sydney) 4 Mar. 1/3: Yet it may often righetously be said, / A statesman has the binjie; clerk the head.
1900		Bulletin (Sydney) 27 Jan. 14/4: The ‘Q. nigger’ [...] is not an authority on snakes, except only in so far as they concern his melon-shaped ‘bingee.’.
1900		Bulletin (Sydney) 19 May 15/1: ‘Look at the bingey he has got on him,’ said the boss, ‘and his hair greased with my fat!’.
1900–10		Stephens & O’Brien Materials for a Dict. of Aus. Sl. [unpub. ms.] 15: BINGY: aboriginal for belly. Corpulence of stomach is called bingy: in slang sense, bingy has a meaning similar to the English ‘corporation.’.
1901		W.S. Walker In the Blood 211: My bullocks ’ad ’ad a good feed. I could see at a glimpse by their bustin’ bingies.
1908		E.G. Murphy ‘The Poet’ in Jarrahland Jingles 29: The poet adjourned to the neighboring pub And blew out his bingey with beer!
1911		Clarence & Richmond Examiner (Grafton) 9 feb. 6/2: Old grey-beards and grandfathers, nig-bingied, stiff-backed old fogies.
1914		Bulletin (Sydney) 27 Aug. 32/4: Jerry dropped his guard, and grabbing his bingy with both hands rolled on the floor.
1919		E. Dyson ‘Bricks’ in ‘Hello, Soldier!’ 31: Son pussied on his bingie [...] and he slugged a tubby Hun.
1924		Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush 90: Success is t’grow a big bingy like a bloke from town, ’n a watch-chain acrost it with a gold dial.
1929		K.S. Prichard Coonardoo 150: Give them a bit of pain killer or a dose of castor oil when they’ve got a bingee ache.
1931		‘William Hatfield’ Sheepmates 245: They’ll [...] get a gutful o’ gallopin’ an’ start booin’ around lookin’ for the fool scrubber that started ’em orf to give him a well-earned poke in the bingie.
1936		Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld) 24 Dec. 5/3: One day he slipped on a wet road, and a loaded wagon went over his bingey.
1938		Referee (Sydney) 15 Dec. 13/5: John L. Sullivan was another big boy of the ‘bingy’ brigade. Nobody ever suggested that John L. was too fat to fight. At least, not within the range of Mr. Sullivan’s hearing.
1945		Townsville Daily Bull. (Qld) 3 Dec. 2: Binjey (the stomach).
1952		West Australian (Perth) 23 Aug. 20/2: We have lifted numerous native words [...] bingey (stomach).
1984		J. Carson in Ammon Working Lives 153: Toby rushed up with two handfuls of wriggling bardies – or bush grubs. He said, ‘You eat um. He good fella tucka longa bingy.’.
1993		Aus. Word Map 🌐 binji. (Koori for stomach) stomach.