boongとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /bʊŋ/
• 韻: -ʊŋ

名詞

boong (plural boongs)

1. (Australia, slang, offensive, ethnic slur) An Australian Aboriginal person.
   • 1988, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines‎, page 92:

     I heard Bruce tell one of the drinkers he'd bought a place in Queensland where you could ‘still call a Boong a Boong’.

   • 2010, Peter Temple, The Broken Shore‎, page 82:

     ‘ […] I quit the feds because I didn't want to be a showpiece boong cop.’

   • 2011, Linda Lee Rathbun, Tjuringa, unnumbered page:

     “Yeah,” he said, “them boongs are a useless lot. The sooner they all die off, the better.”
     “And why is that?” Bill asked.
     “The Abos are nothing but a pack of boozers. All they wanna' do is get pissed.” The man glared at his beer. “Useless, they are.”

2. (Australia, slang, dated) A native of New Guinea or Malaysia.
   • 1943, Australian Army, “Timor Souvenir”, in Khaki and Green: With the Australian Army at Home and Overseas, page 119:

     A couple of boongs came down and carried me up to the hut where our R.A.P. corporal was.

   • 1998, August Ibrum K. Kituai, My Gun, My Brother: The World of the Papua New Guinea Colonial Police, 1920-1960‎, page 282:

     During the War the soldiers generally referred to Papua New Guineans as “Boongs,” a name also given to black Americans. It is not a nice word, but is fair to say that the Aussies held the boongs in quite some affection during the War.

   • 2000, Prue Torney-Parlicki, Somewhere in Asia: War, Journalism and Australia's Neighbours 1941-75‎, page 48:

     [Department of Information cameraman Damien] Parer's views on mateship encompassed both the Papuans and the soldiers: at one point he wrote ‘“no boongs, no battle”, implying that natives and diggers were equal partners in their fight against the Japanese.’

別の表記

• bung or bong

同意語

• (Asian or dark-skinned person): Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel
• (aboriginal): abo, Jacky

参考

• List of ethnic slurs on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

参照

アナグラム

• bogon, bongo