Wagga Wagga

English
The railway bridge over Tarcutta Street in Wagga Wagga

Etymology

Reduplication of Wiradhuri wagga (“crow”), where it pluralises the word.

Other translations have also attributed the word wagga to mean 'reeling (like a sick man or a dizzy man)' to 'dance, slide or grind'.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˌwɒɡə ˈwɒɡə/

Proper noun

Wagga Wagga

  1. A city in New South Wales, Australia.

Translations

References
  • “Geographical Names Register Extract”, in (please provide the title of the work)‎, Geographical Names Board of NSW, accessed 2007-04-25
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