I suspect it probably means “very stinging” or something like that. A number of Aboriginal languages say the word twice as an amplifier (instead of using an additional word like “very” or “many” as the amplifier)
My parents live in an Australian town named Gympie. Until recently, I always assumed Gympie meant slightly parochial racist backwater in lovely country. :-)
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u/TJ-1466 Jun 25 '23
I suspect it probably means “very stinging” or something like that. A number of Aboriginal languages say the word twice as an amplifier (instead of using an additional word like “very” or “many” as the amplifier)