kylie

See also: Kylie

English

Alternative forms

• kiley, kyley (both archaic)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɪli/

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• Rhymes: -aɪli

Noun

kylie (plural kylies)

1. (Australia, chiefly Western Australia) A boomerang.
   • 1889, Annie Brassey, Mary Anne Broome, The Last Voyage, to India and Australia, in the Sunbeam, published 2010, page 252:

     Then we drove up to the cricket-ground to see them throw their boomerangs or kylies, which they did very cleverly. One of the kylies was broken against a tree, but most of the others flew with unerring precision.

   • 1916, Royal Society of Western Australia, Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, volume 1, page 57:

     The islanders have discovered that kylies made out of thin iron, such as ship′s tanks, are the most serviceable, and they show great dexterity in making them (see Fig. 6).

   • 2001, Jacqueline L. Longe, How Products Are Made, page 55:

     Kylies were used by prehistoric people in all parts of the world. Usually made of wood, they were banana shaped; both faces of each arm were carved into curved, airfoil surfaces.

Anagrams

• Kiley, Kiely, ylike, likey, kiley, Keily

Nyunga

Alternative forms

• kylee, kyli

Noun

kylie

1. boomerang; usually of the non-returning, hooked (beaked) form

References

• 1975, Ethel Hassell, My dusky friends: Aboriginal life, customs and legends and glimpses of station life at Jarramungup in the 1880s
• 2011, Bindon, P. and Chadwick, R. (compilers and editors), A Nyoongar Wordlist: from the south-west of Western Australia, Western Australian Museum (Welshpool, WA), 2nd ed.