boodie

• Some animals are casually named - tsessebe, greater bilby, boodie, tuatara, woylie - as if every reader knows what they look like. —  NYT > Travel
• 'What ails him at me?' continued Mrs. Falconer, 'that he rins as gin I war a boodie? —  Robert Falconer
• In Australia dwells a nearly extinct creature called the boodie, an omnivorous and nocturnal burrowing animal "like a kangaroo no bigger than a modest teddy bear" with "a particular appetite for underground fungi," writes Tim Winton in the environmental lit journal —  Utne Reader Latest 10 Articles
• In Australia dwells a nearly extinct creature called the boodie, an omnivorous and nocturnal burrowing animal "like a kangaroo no bigger than a modest teddy bear" with "a particular appetite for underground fungi," writes Tim Winton in "Repatriation: Travels Through a Recovering Landscape" in the beefy environmental lit journal —  Utne Reader Latest 10 Articles
• Naturally "leery of wealthy do-gooders," he nonetheless comes to see promise in privately funded efforts to preserve prime boodie habitat. —  Utne Reader Latest 10 Articles

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