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boong
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boong [buːŋ]
n
Austral offensive a Black person
[perhaps of native Australian origin]
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And if such people have grown up with whites calling them coons or boongs or niggers or blacks, I understand why they would wish to identify as straight Aboriginal ahead of the non-Aboriginal parts of their make-up.
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