Word.ws English Dictionary

boardies

More pronunciations (1)Fewer pronunciations

Australia/ˈboː.diːz/

boardies noun: boardshorts. Also the plural of boardie.

Noun

boardies

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) Boardshorts.
    • I find them a curiously confronting sight, dressed in thongs, boardies and Victoria Bitter singlets, and shrouded in Australian flags.2009, Paul Daley, Beersheba: A Journey Through Australia's Forgotten War, page 313
    • Sadly he was later parted from his beloved leopard print boardies when he left them drying on his tent in Rome, and a bypasser took off with them. More sadly that meant that someone else out there also thought that leopard print boardies were a ‘must have’ fashion item.2010, Shannon Meadows, Road Wench - It's A Tour, Not A Holiday, unnumbered page

Also used as

boardies is also the plural of boardie.

Questions about boardies

What does boardies mean?
Boardies means boardshorts.
What part of speech is boardies?
Boardies is a noun.
How do you pronounce boardies?
Boardies is pronounced /ˈboː.diːz/ (Australia).

Words near boardies in the dictionary

  1. boardgamers
  2. boardgames
  3. boardgamey
  4. boardie
  5. boardier
  6. boardies
  7. boardiest
  8. boardin'
  9. boarding
  10. boarding ax
  11. boarding axe

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: boardies (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: EN-AU ck1 boardies.ogg.

Cite this entry: “boardies.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/boardies. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.