"boondie" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: boondies [plural]
Etymology: From an Aboriginal Australian language (probably of Western Australia) bundi ("stone"). Head templates: {{en-noun}} boondie (plural boondies)
  1. A stone thrown as a weapon; or a heavy club.
    Sense id: en-boondie-en-noun-dFhhy5HH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "From an Aboriginal Australian language (probably of Western Australia) bundi (\"stone\").",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "boondies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "boondie (plural boondies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        },
        {
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          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1969, W. Michael Ryan, White Man, Black Man: The true story of a white man who was initiated into an Aboriginal tribe:",
          "text": "[…]I gathered my gun and boondie and went with him.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A stone thrown as a weapon; or a heavy club."
      ],
      "id": "en-boondie-en-noun-dFhhy5HH",
      "links": [
        [
          "stone",
          "stone"
        ],
        [
          "heavy",
          "heavy"
        ],
        [
          "club",
          "club"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "boondie"
}
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  "etymology_text": "From an Aboriginal Australian language (probably of Western Australia) bundi (\"stone\").",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "boondies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
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      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1969, W. Michael Ryan, White Man, Black Man: The true story of a white man who was initiated into an Aboriginal tribe:",
          "text": "[…]I gathered my gun and boondie and went with him.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A stone thrown as a weapon; or a heavy club."
      ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
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}

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