yarramans
Meaning of yarramans
- a horse.
I can hear a yarraman, I reckon
a mob of bush-bred yarramans
mid 19th century: probably from an Aboriginal language. The word was taken into the early Australian pidgin used by white settlers and Aboriginal people to communicate with each other; each believed that yarraman was the word for ‘horse’ in the other's language.
Information about yarramans
- It is a name.
- The singular form of yarramans is: yarraman.
- Languages in which yarramans is used:
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Hyphenation of yarramans
yarra-mans
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- yarramans is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Words that rhyme with yarramans
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