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/ˈɡɪd͡ʒi/ · noun
(Australia) Any of various trees of the genus Acacia, especially Acacia cambagei..
Although he lay with some sense of security beneath a gidgee tree, his father's totem, he was brooding about how he could get rid of the pigeons.
Acacia homalophylla, A. Cunn., B. Fl., ii., 383. "Curly or Narrow-leaved Yarran." A "Myall." Called also "Gidgee."
Since my early days of droving the years have taken toll, / But I somehow miss my swag wrap by a fire of gidgee coal.
“What say we catch gilgies? I've got a gidgee hidden down the river bank. There's some real big ones this time of year.”
I take up the shovel and hold it aloft like a gidgee, but the centipede has disappeared.
The locals fished by herding fish into the sandy shallows and spearing them with their gidgees.
Use gidgee when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Gidgee means (Australia) Any of various trees of the genus Acacia, especially Acacia cambagei..
Common synonyms include stinking wattle, acacia cambegei.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Although he lay with some sense of security beneath a gidgee tree, his father's totem, he was brooding about how he could get rid of the pigeons.
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