English

Alternative forms

• Kylee
• Kyleigh

Proper noun

Kylie

1. A female given name.
   • 2002, Erinn Banting, Australia: The People, page 30,

     Kylie and her parents had been driving through the outback for hours. They had taken a five-hour flight from Sydney, where they lived, to Perth, in Western Australia. From Perth, they had to drive another seven hours to get to Kylie′s aunt and uncle′s sheep station.

   • 2010, Joanne Harris, blueeyedboy, Doubleday, ISBN 9780385609500, page 102:

     Emily. Em-il-y, three syllables, like a knock on the door of destiny. Such an odd, old-fashioned name, compared to those Kylies and Traceys and Jades — names that reeked of Impulse and grease and stood out in gaudy neon colours —

English

Noun

kylie ‎(plural kylies)

1. (Australia, chiefly Western Australia) A boomerang.
   • 1889, Annie Brassey, Mary Anne Broome, The Last Voyage, to India and Australia, in the Sunbeam, 2010, page 252,

     Then we drove up to the cricket-ground to see them throw their boomerangs or kylies, which they did very cleverly. One of the kylies was broken against a tree, but most of the others flew with unerring precision.

   • 1916, Royal Society of Western Australia, Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, Volume 1, page 57,

     The islanders have discovered that kylies made out of thin iron, such as ship′s tanks, are the most serviceable, and they show great dexterity in making them (see Fig. 6).

   • 2001, Jacqueline L. Longe, How Products Are Made, page 55,

     Kylies were used by prehistoric people in all parts of the world. Usually made of wood, they were banana shaped; both faces of each arm were carved into curved, airfoil surfaces.

Nyunga

Noun

kylie

1. boomerang

Alternative forms

• kylee
• kyli

References

• 1975, Ethel Hassell, My dusky friends: Aboriginal life, customs and legends and glimpses of station life at Jarramungup in the 1880s
• 2011, Bindon, P. and Chadwick, R. (compilers and editors), A Nyoongar Wordlist: from the south-west of Western Australia, Western Australian Museum (Welshpool, WA), 2nd ed.