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- noun A
stone thrown as a weapon; a heavy club.
Etymologies
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From an Aboriginal Australian language (probably of Western Australia) bundi ("stone").
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Examples
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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."
knitandpurl commented on the word boondie
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
March 29, 2010
knitandpurl commented on the word boondie
"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
March 29, 2010