Meanings
nounboondie (plural boondies)
plural boondies
- 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 tribe1 more example
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
Synonyms & antonyms
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Origin
From an Aboriginal Australian language (probably of Western Australia) bundi ("stone").
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APA
boondie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boondie
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“boondie.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boondie. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “boondie,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boondie.
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