wurley

wurley
/werr"lee/, n., pl. wurleys, wurlies. Australian.
1. an Aborigine's shelter, made of branches and leaves.
2. a nest, esp. a rat's nest.
[1840-50; < Kaurna (Australian Aboriginal language, now extinct, spoken at the present site of Adelaide), recorded as wa(d)li]

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