yarramen
Meaning of yarramen
- 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 yarramen
- It is a name.
- Languages in which yarramen is used:
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Hyphenation of yarramen
yarra-men
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- yarramen is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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