nullah-nullah

English

Noun

nullah-nullah (plural nullah-nullahs)

  1. Alternative form of nulla-nulla
    • 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia‎, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 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, editor, The Peaceful Army‎, Penguin, page 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, page 120:
      […] the Aborigine nullah-nullah club, a weapon made from an uprooted young tree.
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