budgeree

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

adj.


aboriginal word for good, whichis common colloquially in the bush. See Budgerigar.

1793. J.Hunter, `Port Jackson,' p. 195:

«They very frequently, at the conclusion of the dance, wouldapply to us . . . for marks of our approbation . . . which wenever failed to give by often repeating the word boojery, good; or boojery caribberie, a gooddance.»