Nharangga Word

bagga

English Word

black snake

Sound

Dictionary Category
Children
Traditional
Lexical Category
noun
Main Sentence English
Look out, mate, there is a snake!

Definition/Cultural Note

Egginton/Tindale records this as specifically the black snake (pseudechis porphyriacus) - and corrects Egginton/Johnson which records it as any kind of snake. Possibly the word in Egginton/Johnson should have been badja.- Aunty Phoebe Wanganeen suggests the meaning death adder - a very deadly snake.

Different ways of saying this word
bakka
Scientific Name
pseudechis porphyriacus