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pipi: Eugarie are the best bait for beach fishing. [from the Aboriginal language Yagara (Brisbane region)]
Contributor's comments: I grew up in Wynnum and holidayed on Stradbroke Island. I was grown up before I realised there was another word for the bivalves.
Contributor's comments: aka Pippies in S.Qld / Wong in N. NSW / Cockles in SA.
Contributor's comments: I was raised invarious parts of Queensland and alway referred to them as Eugaries while my husband who was from the north coast area of NSW always call them pipis. There was a documentary on the ABC TV several years ago and the anthropologist said, "I am sitting on a midden of eugarie shells many hundreds of years old."