nullah-nullah

nullah-nullah

English

Noun

nullah-nullah (plural nullah-nullahs)

1. Alternative form of nulla-nulla
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter XI, p. 173,

     […] he crept on him one night and battered him with a nullah-nullah, leaving him for dead.

   • 1988, Miles Franklin, "Rose Scott: Some Aspects of her Personality and Work" in Dale Spender (ed.), The Peaceful Army, Penguin, p. 97,

     Rose Scott considered votes for women the big nullah-nullah with which to attack laws and conditions unjust to women and children […]

   • 2010, Pam Cook, Baz Luhrmann, London, Palgrave Macmillan, p. 120

     […] the Aborigine nullah-nullah club, a weapon made from an uprooted young tree.