dugite

English

Etymology

From Nyunga.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈd(j)uːɡʌɪt/

Noun

dugite (plural dugites)

1. Pseudonaja affinis, a highly venomous snake of southwest Australia.
   • 1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 150:

     A small dugite crawled across the lawn from the golf links.

   • 1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, Picador, published 2014, page 19:

     Dugites and bobtails rustled out there, and in the evenings, bronzed by the sun as it dunked into the sea, whole mobs of kangaroos lined the ridge […].