nullah-nullah

English

Noun

nullah-nullah (plural nullah-nullahs)

1. Alternative form of nulla-nulla
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia‎^[1], 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^[2], 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^[3], London: Palgrave Macmillan, page 120:

     […] the Aborigine nullah-nullah club, a weapon made from an uprooted young tree.