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Meaning of "dilly bag" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DILLY BAG

From native Australian dilly small bag or basket.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF DILLY BAG

dilly bag play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DILLY BAG

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determiner
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Dilly bag is a noun.
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WHAT DOES DILLY BAG MEAN IN ENGLISH?

dilly bag

Dillybag

A dillybag or dilly bag is a traditional Australian Aboriginal bag, generally woven from the fibres of plant species of the Pandanus genus.. It is used for a variety of food transportation and preparation purposes. Dilly comes from the Jagera word dili, which refers to both the bag and the plants from which it is made. The dilly bag, otherwise known as yakou, yibali or but but bag, is a bag worn around the neck to hold food like berries, meat, fish etc. The Dilly bag is normally woven out of vines or tough dried grasses and sometimes had feather or animal fur inside the bag to stop small pieces of food falling through holes in the weave. Mainly used by women to gather food but can be used by men to help carry some tools for hunting. Another use for the dilly bag was as a holder for personal or tribal artifacts. The "Dilly bag" term is also used to describe bags used by non-aboriginal Australians, for example a smaller food bag carried by swagmen along with their swags. The term is also used by Australians to describe similar bags for other purposes.

Definition of dilly bag in the English dictionary

The definition of dilly bag in the dictionary is a small bag, esp one made of plaited grass, etc, often used for carrying food Sometimes shortened to: dilly.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DILLY BAG

dilettantism
Dili
diligence
diligent
diligently
dill
dill pickle
dilli
dillies
dilly
dilly-dallied
dilly-dallies
dilly-dally
dilly-dallying
diltiazem
dilucidate
dilucidation
diluent
dilutable
dilute

WORDS THAT END LIKE DILLY BAG

bean bag
body bag
bounty bag
carry-on bag
colostomy bag
ditty bag
doggy bag
goody bag
jelly bag
Jiffy bag
let the cat out of the bag
lucky bag
mummy bag
mystery bag
nunny bag
plastic bag
poly bag
shopping bag
tote bag
vanity bag

Synonyms and antonyms of dilly bag in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «dilly bag» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DILLY BAG

Find out the translation of dilly bag to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of dilly bag from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dilly bag» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

迪丽袋
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

bolsa Dilly
570 millions of speakers

English

dilly bag
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आगा बैग
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

حقيبة ديلي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Дилли мешок
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

saco Dilly
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ডলি ব্যাগ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sac dilly
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Beg bodoh
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

dilly Tasche
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ディリーバッグ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

투정 가방
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tas dilly
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

túi dilly
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மிளகாய் பை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

डिली बॅग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Dil çantası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sacchetto di dilly
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dilly torba
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Дилли мішок
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sac Dilly
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

dilly τσάντα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Dilly sak
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Dilly påse
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Dilly bag
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dilly bag

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DILLY BAG»

The term «dilly bag» is used very little and occupies the 183.094 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dilly bag

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DILLY BAG»

Discover the use of dilly bag in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dilly bag and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Healing from the Dilly Bag
I possess a special small dilly bag (wagardi) and a total of ten healing stones or crystals, which I use to treat people. I am aided by many of my ancestral spirits which possess magical energy of their own and are only visible to the healer.
Bilawara Lee, 2013
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Basic Linguistic Theory Volume 3: Further Grammatical Topics
First of all, they put a woven dilly-bag, jawun, into the water hoping that an eel would swim into it; but no luck. This is described by a plain transitive clause: (40) jawunO balagarra-guA IJaba-n jaban-gu, yimba dilly-bag:ABs 3du—ERG ...
R. M. W. Dixon, 2012
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Wandjuk Marika: Life Story
We still make dilly bag, not men but the women. Men work on the feather string to put with the dilly bag - it's a very important thing. Used to be my Auntie, my father's sister, who made all the sacred dilly bag. Now my first wife, she makes all the ...
Wandjuk Marika, Jennifer Isaacs, 1995
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Yir-Yoront Lexicon: Sketch and Dictionary of an Australian ...
... large PONH- NGAMA+Y+RR dilly-bag sp THAWL-KUN-KELM dilly-bag sp, chain-twist netting THAWL dilly-bag sp, loop-stitch netting NGOW dilly-bag sp, made from YO-PUPAR NGOW-PUPAR dilly-bag sp, netting-stich KUNH dilly-bag sp, ...
Barry Alpher, 1991
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String and Other Forms of Strand: Basketry-, Woven Bag-, and ...
Nut roasted in its shell, shell cracked, kernel pounded between round and fiat stone, and then soaked in water, which percolates through a dilly-bag immersed in it. MAL, bara; Csrdwell, wanga. Oryptocarya Palmevwtonz', Bail. The nut is ...
Walter Edmund Roth, 1901
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North Queensland Ethnography
The reason for letting these few days elapse is said to lie in the fact that the delay helps to make them pound up more finely. The pounded nut is next sifted through a palm-fibre dilly-bag, which, having a mesh with smaller interspaces than the ...
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My Sister Dilly
I'd barely retrieved Dilly's bag out of the backseat before Mom came down the stairs from the kitchen door. She waved a dish towel in her hand as she trotted toward Dilly, all five foot one, 110 pounds of her wiggling like a puppy reunited with ...
Maureen Lang, 2008
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The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional ...
171, 2002 dilly bag noun a bag, generally small, for carrying odds and ends AUSTRALIA, 1906 From dilly a traditional Australian Aboriginal woven bag, from the Australian Aboriginal language Yagara. • — Harvey E. Ward, Down Under ...
Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, 2006
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Pacific Island Legends: Tales from Micronesia, Melanesia, ...
Byamee wanted to give her the gift that would help her most of all. So he called the sky spirits together and said, "Go down below to where the eucalyptus grow tall. Peel the long strips of bark and make a dilly bag apron. Give it to the kangaroo ...
Bo Flood, Beret E. Strong, William Flood, 1999
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Traditional Cosmology (4); The Global Mythology of Cosmic ...
coiled in the dilly-bag, is the cord by which the child is joined to its mother. ... The spirit Naikala dances, holding the dilly-bag with the morning-star in it. He looks round and he dances and sees a pandanus-tree. He throws the morning-star out  ...
Marinus Anthony van der Sluijs

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DILLY BAG»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dilly bag is used in the context of the following news items.
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Couples prefer adventure on their travels, such as trekking the Inca …
Less dramatic, but completely unique, is Lirrwi Tourism's Gay'wu Dilly Bag Women's Tours. Operating in July and August, the tours give small ... «Courier Mail, May 15»
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Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2015: Paul Grabowsky's …
... walks and dances through the land, makes a spear and spear-thrower, then takes bush string from the bark of a tree, forming it into a dilly bag ... «Sydney Morning Herald, May 15»
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Building bush tucker tourism to benefit far north Queensland …
"Then they leave it in a dilly bag in running water until the poison runs out of it, just like the black bean." (ABC: Mark Rigby). Cocky Apple Tree. «ABC Online, Mar 15»
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Going 'croco' in the great outback
There was also a didgeridoo and clapstick demonstration, dilly bag and basket weaving, as well as spear making and throwing. We were also ... «The Star Online, Aug 14»
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February 26, 2014, 8:43 am
Blind and betrayed, her dilly bag, the repository of her mob's artefacts, broken and scattered, she wanders, looking for death. I took some time to ... «The West Australian, Feb 14»
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Elder hopes more indigenous students don academic robes
... Pathways Program, USQ offered three types of support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students through the Deadly Dilly Bag. «Fraser Coast Chronicle, Feb 14»
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Designer Tiffany Lerman Launches Pattern LA, A New Collection of …
The Dilly Bag is a mid-size crossbody bag made of durable laminated cotton and sturdy cotton webbing straps with multiple interior and exterior ... «PR Newswire, Jan 14»
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Powering cultural preservation: New grants expand archiving of …
Mukurtu is the Warumungu word for “dilly bag,” a traditional Australian aboriginal container. Elders of the Warumungu community in Australia's ... «WSU News, Oct 13»
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Tom E Lewis as Lear in The Shadow King, a new version of King …
Lewis, his expressive face deeply lined, is wearing a dilly bag on his head, standing in for a crown. Jada Alberts, Natasha Wanganeen and ... «The Australian, Oct 13»
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Rocks of ages
So along with his firesticks, the dragon-esque Nabilil had a dilly bag full ... Nabilil and puncture the dilly bag, thereby unleashing the Katherine ... «The Australian, Jul 13»

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