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- noun Australia A species of
bettong , Bettongia lesueur. - noun Obsolete spelling of
body .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In Australia dwells a nearly extinct creature called the boodie, an omnivorous and nocturnal burrowing animal "like a kangaroo no bigger than a modest teddy bear" with "a particular appetite for underground fungi," writes Tim Winton in the environmental lit journal
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In Australia dwells a nearly extinct creature called the boodie, an omnivorous and nocturnal burrowing animal "like a kangaroo no bigger than a modest teddy bear" with "a particular appetite for underground fungi," writes Tim Winton in the environmental lit journal
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In Australia dwells a nearly extinct creature called the boodie, an omnivorous and nocturnal burrowing animal "like a kangaroo no bigger than a modest teddy bear" with "a particular appetite for underground fungi," writes Tim Winton in "Repatriation: Travels Through a Recovering Landscape" in the beefy environmental lit journal
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In Australia dwells a nearly extinct creature called the boodie, an omnivorous and nocturnal burrowing animal "like a kangaroo no bigger than a modest teddy bear" with "a particular appetite for underground fungi," writes Tim Winton in "Repatriation: Travels Through a Recovering Landscape" in the beefy environmental lit journal
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This extirpation is made worse by the fact that the boodie was once of the most widespread of Australia's kangaroos, its burrows (now abandoned by the original owners) still visible deep in the heart of Australia.
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This work has studied in detail the life cycle of some of Australia's most threatened animals on Bernier and Dorre Islands and has reintroduced the mari, or western barred bandicoot (Perameles bougainville) and burrowing bettong, (Bettongia lesueur), also known as the boodie.
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Some remain mysterious like the wonderful term my Aunt Fern coined - "boodie ruckus" - useful in any context.
Hangin' Out At The Ozark County Line *** Judith "Jlo" Quinton 2007
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In fact, to borrow Auntie's words, I feel downright "boodie ruckus" today.
Hangin' Out At The Ozark County Line *** Judith "Jlo" Quinton 2007
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For example, "He doesn't know boodie ruckus about that!"
Archive 2007-10-01 Judith "Jlo" Quinton 2007
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For example, "He doesn't know boodie ruckus about that!"
Hangin' Out At The Ozark County Line *** Judith "Jlo" Quinton 2007
vanishedone commented on the word boodie
A supernatural creature not to be confused with the boodie-rat, nor with the verb boody, meaning mope.
January 12, 2009