"bommie" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Clipping of bombora + -ie",
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          "text": "1992, Australian Museum, Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service, Reef biology: a survey of Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs, South Pacific, National Gallery of Australia\nSome solitary corals, such as Cycloseris, were present at the base of the bommie."
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          "ref": "2003, John Singe, My Island Home: A Torres Strait Memoir, Univ. of Queensland Press, →ISBN, page 130:",
          "text": "A large bommie the shape of an onion extends from the main reef on the northern side, and here were two dark crevices favoured by coral trout.",
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          "ref": "2015, M. Allan Daly, Pacific Illusion, Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 83:",
          "text": "The bommie was bustling: fish were coming and going, digging and biting, feeding and fighting on all points of the bommie.",
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        "A bombora."
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        "(Australia) A bombora."
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          "ref": "2004, James Riordan, Football Stories, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 99:",
          "text": "We've got to find where they hid it — before Bommie Night.",
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          "ref": "2012, Margaret Murphy, The Dispossessed, Hachette UK, →ISBN:",
          "text": "'We could go down London Road, collect a bit more for Bommie Night.' Jez suggested. Hallowe'en was still not past and they had used up all their firework stocks.",
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          "ref": "2014, James Marsh, A 1940s Childhood: From Bomb Sites to Children's Hour, The History Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The blackout curtains make a super 'bommie', which is lit as soon as it's dark enough on this wonderful day.",
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          "ref": "2014, Trevor Hoyle, Down the Figure 7, Hachette UK, →ISBN:",
          "text": "'Not that daft if it stops their bommie getting nicked.' Jack winked at Terry. 'You can't have a bonfire without any wood. We're all looking forward to it, aren't we? Roasted spuds, black peas, treacle toffee, parkin...'",
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        "A bonfire."
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        "(UK) A bonfire."
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          "text": "The bommie was bustling: fish were coming and going, digging and biting, feeding and fighting on all points of the bommie.",
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        "A bombora."
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        "(Australia) A bombora."
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          "text": "We've got to find where they hid it — before Bommie Night.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Margaret Murphy, The Dispossessed, Hachette UK, →ISBN:",
          "text": "'We could go down London Road, collect a bit more for Bommie Night.' Jez suggested. Hallowe'en was still not past and they had used up all their firework stocks.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, James Marsh, A 1940s Childhood: From Bomb Sites to Children's Hour, The History Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The blackout curtains make a super 'bommie', which is lit as soon as it's dark enough on this wonderful day.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2014, Trevor Hoyle, Down the Figure 7, Hachette UK, →ISBN:",
          "text": "'Not that daft if it stops their bommie getting nicked.' Jack winked at Terry. 'You can't have a bonfire without any wood. We're all looking forward to it, aren't we? Roasted spuds, black peas, treacle toffee, parkin...'",
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        "A bonfire."
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        "(UK) A bonfire."
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