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PRONUNCIATION GUIDE
Bpep ipple (Flinders 1801)
Be-ep : Nipple (King 1821: 145)
Peep : Breast (Nind 1831: 47)
Bibee : the breast. (R M Lyon, 23/03/1833 – Language of Derbal)
bee-bee : breast, nipple (Grey 1839:135)
Bibi. : Breast, Woman’S (Moore 1842: 124)
Bi-bi : Breast of a woman (Symmons 1842: 3)
bibi; pipi : milk (Salvado 1851: 256)
biba : Breasts (Barlee (Curr) 1886: 357)
bibbee : Breasts (Armstrong (Curr) 1886: 335)
pip : Breasts (Chester (Curr) 1886: 391)
peba : Milk (Gifford (Curr) 1886: 363)
pip : Breasts (Graham (Curr) 1886: 351)
biba : Breasts (Hackett (Curr) 1886: 345)
bebe : Breasts (Hester (Curr) 1886: 361)
pip : Breasts (Hossell, Knight & Spencer (Curr) 1886: 389)
baba : Milk (Scott (Curr) 1886: 347)
pip chirring ngunch : milk (Taylor (Curr) 1886)
bibbie : Milk (Whitfield (Curr) 1886: 327)
Beeba : Breast (Baaburgurt (Bulyen/George Eliot); Bates XII 2B, 13: 3)
Beeba : Breasts (Balbuk; Bates XII 2B, 15: 4)
Beeba : Milk (Monnop, Ballarruk; Bates XII 2B, 24: 23)
beeb : breast, breasts (Ngalbaitch; Bates XII 2B, 7a)
Beeba : Milk (Ngilgee; Bates XII 2B, 12a: 30)
Bibba : Breast, breasts (Joobaitch aka Ngoorweel; Bates XII 2B, 14: 4)
Beeb : Breasts (Kajaman; Bates XII 2B, 11: 4)
beeba : breasts or tits (Bussell 1930: 34)
bee-bee nal-goo : Suckle (breast food) (Hammond 1938: 8)
pip : breast (Douglas 1968: 84)
piip : women’s breast, nipple, mother’s milk (Von Brandenstein 1988: 53)
bib, bibi : milk, breast (Douglas 1991: 26)
bibi, biib, bib : breast (milk) (Whitehurst 1992: 31)
biba : breast (SW) (Dench 1994: 177)
Bibbi : Milk/breast (Richards 1994: 127)
Bibi : breast (Mippy (Rooney) 2002: 325)