boong n.
1. a derog. term for an Aborigine; thus boongess, a female Aborigine; boong-lover, a white person who is regarded as too friendly towards aborigines.
![]() | (con. 1830s–60s) All That Swagger 395: The old bungs are very proud of my cousin. | |
![]() | Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld) 24 Dec. 5/3: I’ve got twenty quid to say the pure bred boong can beat him any day. | |
![]() | Battlers 100: These boangs are all too matey. | |
![]() | Rusty Bugles II v: The boongs reckons that’s the sound of the gods getting wild. | |
![]() | Town Like Alice 82: These bloody boongs, they’re always going walkabout. | |
![]() | Snowball 130: Beridges went on hating all ‘niggers’ and ‘boong-lovers’. | |
![]() | Storms of Summer 163: That Dago’ll slaughter the young boong! | |
![]() | Norm and Ahmed (1973) 6: That’s where old Captain Cook landed, Botany Bay. Must have given the boongs a fright, eh? | |
![]() | Full Cycle 253: Isn’t there a fancy boongess somewhere around this joint? Classy bit of colour? | |
![]() | Outcasts of Foolgarah (1975) 56: Known as [...] Abos (patronizingly), boongs (contemptuously). | |
![]() | Day of the Dog 35: They intended to beat up this weedy pale youth and root his fat black boong senseless. | |
![]() | Pushed from the Wings (1989) 68: He’s a boong lover if ever I met one. | |
![]() | Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 13: An Abo. I’m being shafted by a rotten fuckin’ boong. | |
![]() | Human Torpedo 71: They talked about ‘boongs’ and ‘slopes’ and ‘dagos’. | |
![]() | Lex. of Cadet Lang. 54: One respondent offered a somewhat disturbing ‘folk etymology’: ‘boong is the sound they make as they bounce off the bull bar of your car’. | |
![]() | Truth 318: ‘Who’s this smartarse boong?’ said Hanlon. ‘Can’t get white people to join you cunts now?’. | |
![]() | Thrill City [ebook] What’s it to you, you fucken boong. |
2. attrib. use of sense 1.
![]() | Shiralee 125: That boong piece at the station — you had your peepers on her yet? | |
![]() | Dead Point (2008) [ebook] Really fucken stupid. Fucken boong stupid. |
3. (also boonga, bunga) a native of Papua New Guinea.
![]() | Sydney Morn. Herald 11 Dec. 7/3: Any colouired individual is a ‘wog,’ as distinct from the New Guinea ‘fuzzy wuzzies’ or ‘boongs’. | |
![]() | ‘Wait Till You Get To New Guinea’ in Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 178: Yes, they’ve got the boong well beaten. | |
![]() | (con. 1944) Rats in New Guinea 49: I had a heard a New Guinea native — ‘boongs’ or ‘Fuzzy Wuzzies’ we called them — in Moresby say ‘Japon man’. | |
![]() | Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 18/1: boonga offensive term for Pacific Islander, adapted from equally offensive Australian ‘boong’, applied to an Aboriginal. | |
![]() | Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 30: boonga/bunga Pacific Islander; an offensive adaptation of boong, name of unknown origin for an Australian Aboriginal. ANZ early C20. |
4. any non-white person.
![]() | Behind Bamboo 395/1: Boong, any Asiatic or coloured person. | |
![]() | Norm and Ahmed 20: A bloke at work said he didn’t see the point of bringing a whole lot of boongs out here. |