quamby /ˈkwɒmbi 
/ ▸ verb ( quambies, quambying, quambied)
[no object] Australian English dated lie down, especially in order to sleep: the combatants quambied near the battlefield that night.
– ORIGIN early 19th century: from Wuywurung (an Aboriginal language) guwambi ‘to sleep’.
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