gabuuga
Wiradhuri
Alternative forms
- kábuka
- gabbuga
- kubbuga
Etymology
Compare Gamilaraay gawugaa "head".
Noun
gabuuga
- egg
- brain
Quotations
- 1846, Horatio Hale, Ethnography and philology, vol. VI of Reports of the United States Exploring Expedition, under the command of Charles Wilkes
- kábuka brain (see egg)
- ...
- kábuka egg
- 1892, James Günther, Grammar and Vocabulary of the Aboriginal dialect called Wirradhuri, in John Fraser (ed.), An Australian Language
- Gabbuga—an egg; brains.
- 1904, R. H. Mathews, The Wiradyuri and other languages of New South Wales, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 34
- Eggs .... .... .... kubbuga.