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boondie
noun- in Western Australia, a rock AUSTRALIA, 2002
Probably from an Australian Aboriginal language. - in Western Australia, a piece of conglomerated sand used by children to throw at one another in play AUSTRALIA
- Well–they horse around and chiack each other, and–there, see that bastard, practising grenade-throwing with bits of boondies? I done that many a time! — T. A. G. Hungerford, The Ridge and the River, p. 94, 1952
- 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. — Tim Winton, Cloudstreet, p. 51, 1991
- In Western Australia we called boondies the clumps of sand at the beach and on building sites, there was a competition of throwing boondies at a wall and seeing whose boon[d]ie left the most sand on the wall. — Wordmap (www.abc.net.au/wordmap), 2003
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