Definitions | humpy |
| noun (humpies)
- (Australian English) A hut, especially for Aborigines.
- 1988: There weren't that many blacks about, but a lot of humpies " at times it must have been a fairly big camp. " Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked (Angus & Robertson 1995, p. 257)
Etymology: From Aboriginal yumbi, influenced by hump.
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