narangy

English

Etymology

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Noun

narangy (plural narangies)

1. (Australia) A mid-ranking employee of a sheep station.
   • 2000, Susan Lever, Real Relations: The Feminist Politics of Form in Australian Fiction:

     Furphy's account of the relations between owner's wife, housekeeper, kitchen girl and owner, narangies and stockmen, matches Patty Kinnaird's account of Warandara society in her letters to her husband.