bardies

Neither wallabies nor natives were to be seen, though occasionally we noticed where "bardies" had been dug out, and a little further on a native grave, a hole about three feet square by three feet deep, lined at the bottom with gum leaves and strips of bark, evidently ready to receive the deceased.

Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

We saw where the woman had dug out bardies from the roots of a wattle, where the buck had unearthed a rat, * and where together they had chased a lizard.

Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

Without begging from the diggers I fail to see how they could have lived, for not a living thing was to be found in the bush, save an occasional iguana and "bardies, *" and, as I have said, all known waters within available distance of Coolgardie were dry, or nearly so.

Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

Starve the bardies, a meaningless interjection, is Western Australian (stone the crows, itself rather "literary" now, being a more likely Eastern-state term), while up the booay is from New Zealand, nearly a quarter of a world away.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 3 1984

Some will have them to have bevn contrived with a double roof; the ttppcrmoit of bardies, and the next of plank.

The Works of the Greek and Roman Poets 1812