boondie

English

Etymology

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

Noun

boondie (plural boondies)

1. A stone thrown as a weapon; or a heavy club.
   • 1969, W. Michael Ryan, White Man, Black Man: The true story of a white man who was initiated into an Aboriginal tribe:

     […] I gathered my gun and boondie and went with him.

   • 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:

     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.