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boondie

boondie noun: a stone thrown as a weapon; or a heavy club.

Noun

boondie (plural boondies)

  1. A stone thrown as a weapon; or a heavy club.
    • […]I gathered my gun and boondie and went with him.1969, W. Michael Ryan, White Man, Black Man: The true story of a white man who was initiated into an Aboriginal tribe
    • Look, Jimmy, there goes the girls! / Were the words about the victims said; / The criminal ran them down / And with his boondie killed them dead.1987, John Meredith, Hugh Anderson, Roger Covell, Patricia Anne Brown, Folk Songs of Australia and the men and women who sang them, volume 2, page 202

Forms of boondie

pluralboondies

Origin of boondie

From an Aboriginal Australian language (probably of Western Australia) bundi ("stone").

Questions about boondie

What does boondie mean?
Boondie means a stone thrown as a weapon; or a heavy club.
What part of speech is boondie?
Boondie is a noun.
What is the plural of boondie?
The plural of boondie is boondies.

Words near boondie in the dictionary

  1. boondagger
  2. boondaggers
  3. boonder
  4. boonders
  5. boondi
  6. boondie
  7. boondies
  8. boondis
  9. boondock
  10. boondocked
  11. boondocker

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