munjon

An Aboriginal Australian who has little or no contact with white people.

Noun

  1. An Aboriginal Australian who has little or no contact with white people.
    • Davey was a smart young aboriginal who, only three years before, had been a munjon (wild bush blackfellow). - 1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 6:

Origin

From Yindjibarndi manyjangu (“stranger”).

Forms

munjons