English
gang-gang
Gang-gang comes from Wiradjuri gaŋ-gaŋ.
- Wiradjurimoderngaŋ-gaŋ
- Englishearliest quotation 1985gang-gang
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Wiradjurimoderngaŋ-gaŋ
- Englishearliest quotation 1985gang-gang
Earliest quotation: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker: “He carried the two gang-gang cockatoos in a ferret…”
Every English word from Wiradjuri gaŋ-gaŋ
Today it means
noun A kind of cockatoo (Callocephalon fimbriatum).
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Wiradjuri gaŋ-gaŋ / gang-gang