Definitions for bunyip

bunyip bun·yip

Spelling: [buhn-yip]
IPA: /ˈbʌn yɪp/

Bunyip is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in bunyip (binpuy).

Definitions for bunyip

noun

  1. a mythical creature of Aboriginal legend said to inhabit water and watercourses.
  2. an impostor.

adjective

  1. counterfeit; phony.

Origin of bunyip

1840-50; Wergaia (Australian Aboriginal language of the Wimmera area, Victoria) banib

Examples for bunyip

Its loud, dismal, booming note probably assisted in the formation of the bunyip legends of the blacks.

He took Sam and bunyip aside, and almost gave way to despair.

“Then you and I will have to meet the bunyip, Joe,” said the doctor.

The bunyip from Central Australia has gone to his long home.

Call him Albert when addressing him,' he added to bunyip Bluegum.

But bunyip Bluegum said, 'Why not turn him upside-down and sit on him?'

When that was done, Bill stood up and made a speech to bunyip Bluegum.

The river is too deep, child, and the bunyip lives in the water under the stones.

“It is reckoned the residence of the water-cow,” a monster like the Australian bunyip.

The little bunyip was carried home by its mother, and after that the waters sank back to their own channels.

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