"lubra" meaning in English

See lubra in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈluːbɹə/ Forms: lubras [plural]
Etymology: Origin unknown; probably from an unrecorded Indigenous language of Tasmania. Etymology templates: {{unknown|en|nocap=1}} unknown Head templates: {{en-noun}} lubra (plural lubras)
  1. (Australia, now racially offensive, ethnic slur) A female Aboriginal Australian. Tags: Australia, ethnic, slur Categories (topical): People

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for lubra meaning in English (3.2kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "nocap": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "unknown",
      "name": "unknown"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Origin unknown; probably from an unrecorded Indigenous language of Tasmania.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lubras",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "lubra (plural lubras)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Australian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English ethnic slurs",
          "parents": [
            "Ethnic slurs",
            "Offensive terms",
            "Terms by usage"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 301",
          "text": "Mr. Foelsche's reports show how, at Port Essington, the men will barter their lubras, and everything they possess, for square gin; and, in the south, restrictions have had to be placed upon the publicans to prevent them selling drink to the few natives that remain.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked",
          "text": "We went into the house and Roy called out, “Alice, boil ’im billy, make some tea,” and a few minutes later a comely young lubra appeared, a huge teapot in one hand and a plate with a big brownie on it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Robert Denis Whittle, One Skin For An Overlander, page 166",
          "text": "The lubras were standing up now, in a tight little circle, with their fighting sticks raised. There was another burst of argument and then first one lubra, then another struck her opponent a blow on the head.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Les Hughes, Henry Mundy: A Young Australian Pioneer, page 94",
          "text": "As I have mentioned before, Lubra Creek derived its name from a wanton slaughter of several lubras by an enraged band of squatters whose sheep had been stolen, slaughtered and eaten by the blacks. It was usual when anything of that kind happened to band together for the squatter, and hunt for the delinquents and shoot down the first blacks they caught innocent or guilty. In the case of the Lubra Creek tragedy, it appears they could not drop across any black fellows and finding the lubras hidden in the shrub, ruthlessly shot them down.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A female Aboriginal Australian."
      ],
      "id": "en-lubra-en-noun-tkV9coUP",
      "links": [
        [
          "ethnic",
          "ethnic"
        ],
        [
          "slur",
          "slur"
        ],
        [
          "Aboriginal",
          "Aboriginal"
        ],
        [
          "Australian",
          "Australian"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "now racially offensive",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, now racially offensive, ethnic slur) A female Aboriginal Australian."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "ethnic",
        "slur"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈluːbɹə/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lubra"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "nocap": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "unknown",
      "name": "unknown"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Origin unknown; probably from an unrecorded Indigenous language of Tasmania.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lubras",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "lubra (plural lubras)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Australian English",
        "English 2-syllable words",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English ethnic slurs",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with unknown etymologies",
        "en:People"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 301",
          "text": "Mr. Foelsche's reports show how, at Port Essington, the men will barter their lubras, and everything they possess, for square gin; and, in the south, restrictions have had to be placed upon the publicans to prevent them selling drink to the few natives that remain.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked",
          "text": "We went into the house and Roy called out, “Alice, boil ’im billy, make some tea,” and a few minutes later a comely young lubra appeared, a huge teapot in one hand and a plate with a big brownie on it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Robert Denis Whittle, One Skin For An Overlander, page 166",
          "text": "The lubras were standing up now, in a tight little circle, with their fighting sticks raised. There was another burst of argument and then first one lubra, then another struck her opponent a blow on the head.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Les Hughes, Henry Mundy: A Young Australian Pioneer, page 94",
          "text": "As I have mentioned before, Lubra Creek derived its name from a wanton slaughter of several lubras by an enraged band of squatters whose sheep had been stolen, slaughtered and eaten by the blacks. It was usual when anything of that kind happened to band together for the squatter, and hunt for the delinquents and shoot down the first blacks they caught innocent or guilty. In the case of the Lubra Creek tragedy, it appears they could not drop across any black fellows and finding the lubras hidden in the shrub, ruthlessly shot them down.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A female Aboriginal Australian."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ethnic",
          "ethnic"
        ],
        [
          "slur",
          "slur"
        ],
        [
          "Aboriginal",
          "Aboriginal"
        ],
        [
          "Australian",
          "Australian"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "now racially offensive",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, now racially offensive, ethnic slur) A female Aboriginal Australian."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "ethnic",
        "slur"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈluːbɹə/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lubra"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.