Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A stone thrown as a weapon; a heavy club.
Etymologies
- From an Aboriginal Australian language (probably of Western Australia) bundi ("stone"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A Western Australian writer, Stuart Gore, has noticed that "the connie, the ronnie, or the yonnie, which the youth of other states bish, biff, or peg at a target becomes for the West Australian boy a boondie or a brick, which he may either lob or heave.”
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scrabbleabdul, abdulled, abdulling, abi, abiu, ablactate, absinthial, absinthian, absoluter, acalypha, acanthodian, acaroids and 5128 more...
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Cloudstreet
From Cloudstreet by Tim Winton. Expect lots of new-to-me words and/or just pleasing words encountered in this book, perhaps mostly Australian slang.
chiack, staggerjuice, thunderbox, patterson's curse, cactus, dreckly, compo, hayburner, mulie, carn, dag, grizzle and 34 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for boondie.
knitandpurl "That autumn the street seemed full. There were always Pickles kids and Lamb kids up one end of the street throwing boondies or chasing someone's dog."
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton, p 51 of the Graywolf Press hardcover edition Mar 29, 2010
knitandpurl From The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English:
1 in Western Australia, a rock. Probably from an Australian Aboriginal languagge
2 in Western Australia, a piece of conglomerated sand used by children to throw at one another in play
Mar 29, 2010