humpy

1. (Australia) A hut or temporary shelter made from bark and tree branches, traditionally used by Aboriginal people.Examples: "Trilby was the first to wake, her face barred with sunlight that slipped through the inadequate walls of the humpy."; "I dreamed that a boy child walked past all the other humpies [Australian white term for native huts] in the camp and kept coming until he got to my house. He beat on the bark wall."; "There weren′t that many blacks about, but a lot of humpies – at times it must have been a fairly big camp."Australia

2. (Australia) Any crude or temporary dwelling, especially made from found materials; a bush hut.Examples: "They did nothing much more in the way of building than to erect a number of crazy humpies of such materials as bark and kerosene-cans […]"; "Evicted men and their families lived wherever they could, and shanty towns of hessian-sack humpies grew up in Sydney′s southern suburbs on vacant crown land: the largest being at Brighton-le-Sands, Rockdale, Long Bay and La Perouse. In such camps, unemployed huddled for warmth in humpies while, closer to the city, others squatted in caves in the Domain around the local beauty spot known as Mrs Macquarie′s chair."Synonyms: gunyah, mia mia, wurly, shackAustralia