murri

1. (Australian Aboriginal, Queensland, New South Wales) An indigenous Australian, especially one from Queensland or northern New South Wales.Examples: "[O]n the veranda a fight started round the dart-board and two of the Murris threw punches until the barman thumped them apart."; "The local council wanted the Murries to live in town. (The council didn't care too much what the Murries themselves thought of this idea.)"; "1998, Margaret Henderson, Subdivisions of Suburbia, Andrew McCann (editor), Writing the Everyday, Australian Literary Studies, Volume 18, No. 4, University of Queensland Press, page 78, She can confidently walk through the mall, and make the politico-spatial connections between what she sees (Murries sitting and begging, crowds of Chinese-Australians, police lurking), what she has experienced in Eagleby (dispossessed whites, Murries unaware of their heritage), and what she has learnt from Roger, Kerry, and the 'Anyday Story'."Synonyms: KooriNew-South-Wales