Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The name given in Australia to certain longicorn larvæ dug out of the roots of shrubs, or out of fallen trees, and roasted and eaten by the natives.
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Examples
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They should buzz if they want to speak.4 Introduce I'm A Celebrity-style bushtucker challengesThe finalists should have to eat witchetty grubs while they're waiting to sing.
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I'm still mourning the no-show of confessional journalist Liz Jones, as I was looking forward to a vegan at a bushtucker trial, telling them where to shove their witchetty grubs.
Health and safety rules should have a get-out clause | Barbara Ellen 2011
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Isn't it all witchetty grubs and kangaroo testicles?
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I'm a great believer in trying things, so I've eaten witchetty grubs, a mountain frog, ostrich and alligator.
Monty Don: 'I often eat cakes while my fingers are caked in soil' John Hind 2010
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The culinary genius forced down crocodile penis, a witchetty grub, which he likened to eating an oyster and two crocodile eyes.
Croc Update (Gourmet Edition) Bill Crider 2007
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The culinary genius forced down crocodile penis, a witchetty grub, which he likened to eating an oyster and two crocodile eyes.
Archive 2007-11-11 Bill Crider 2007
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As a child, Latz remembers collecting, with his Aboriginal friends, about twenty-five witchetty grubs from one tree in an hour or so of leisurely work, locating their boreholes and fishing them out with the hooked wiry stem of the curly windmill grass.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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As a child, Latz remembers collecting, with his Aboriginal friends, about twenty-five witchetty grubs from one tree in an hour or so of leisurely work, locating their boreholes and fishing them out with the hooked wiry stem of the curly windmill grass.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Why don't you think about eating a nice skewer of roasted witchetty grubs?
self-promotion salad johnjosephadams 2007
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But have no fear, I'll watch it on your behalf and let you know who's eating the witchetty grubs al dente and the kangaroo testicles au naturel.
mollusque commented on the word witchetty
Grub.
June 24, 2008
bilby commented on the word witchetty
Also the witchetty bush, Acacia kempeana.
June 24, 2008
bilby commented on the word witchetty
Found a witchetty grub in the compost in my garden on Saturday. Didn't eat it.
June 24, 2008
dontcry commented on the word witchetty
Good boy!
June 24, 2008