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booner
An ACT term for those individuals who wear sheepskin moccasins, fleecy checked shirts, smoke "Winnie blue" and drink VB. Highly likely to support the Summer Nats. ACT's version of a Sydney "westie" or Victorian "bogan": Eer! Look at those drunken booners, over near the Captain Cook memorial fountain! Compare bevan, bog2, bogan, chigger, boonie, feral, westie.
Contributor's comments: This seems similar to the term "boonies" used in Queensland for some-one from the outer suburbs as in "she lives out in the boonies". I think it's a contraction of 'boondocks'.
Contributor's comments: [ACT informant] In the late 70's/early 80's the term was "boon": I only heard "booner" in about 1984.
Contributor's comments: Having lived several times in the ACT, and in the US, this word is not particularly authentically Australian. It is likely derived from the US term boonies, (short for boondocks) meaning the bush, or a remote place, implying a lack of sophistication and style. Thats the impact of American TV for you.
Contributor's comments: My son aged 26 claims this must be from David Boon the cricketer!
Contributor's comments: In SA a booner is commonly known as a feral, i.e a Port Adelaide supporter.
Contributor's comments: [Adelaide informant] Never heard 'booner' before, but I've certainly heard the word 'boonie' used to describe beer swilling outer suburban types.
Contributor's comments: Over the years I've been involved in a few discussions about where the term "booner" comes from, & the consensus seems to be in reference to the "boondocks", or living on the outer edges of the city where housing is cheaper, & the community is less "cosmospolitan".
Contributor's comments: How about the town of Boonah, in Queensland? I moved to the ACT from QLD and always assumed they were related...certainly makes people from ACT laugh if they discover a town called booner!!
Contributor's comments: I remember the transition from 'Boons' to 'Booner', in the early 1980s. As a kid growing up at the time, I never got a sense that the word had started out as 'Boondocks' or from the influence of US TV, but that's not important. The important part is that we didn't know what 'westies' or 'bogans' were, because as far as we were concerned they were boon/ers. Don't knock the authentic 'berraism.
Contributor's comments: A person from outer suburban areas, often driving old holdens and wearing a flannie: "This Booner hang a burnout at the traffic lights."
Contributor's comments: This word may be a simile for the Sydney term 'westie'. It is less about class or geographic distinction than the Sydney term. It is more about fashion when used in the relatively flat socio-economic landscape of Canberra. This word is used in 'Troy's House' a play by Queanbeyan writer Tommy Murphy. The usage here is "A booner... you know like a a bevan with a mullet cut."
Contributor's comments: Was a very popular word in Canberra in the mid-80's. Never heard it associated with the term "boondocks". Used to describe blokes with mullet hairdo's, a pack of Winnie Blues up the sleeve of their t-shirt, and some noisy old car with a huge V8.
Contributor's comments: I would argue that the usage for the words booner, and feral, etc. when used by Canberran's mean a range of different things. A feral is uniquely unable to maintain cleanliness, but could have been brought up in any socioeconomic background. And could quite possibly be a rich kid gone haywire with the environmentalist approach, whereas a booner is from a low wage or unemployed family, and is unlikely to be able to string a sentence together. A booner is likely to be interested in Cars rather than music. Both are stereotyped as beer drinking league watchers who didn't finish year ten and don't understand the merits of cleanliness, but a feral would be more likely to grow vegetables and not shower as a statement. I now live in Melbourne where the term Bogan is much like Booner, but not like feral. All are however, degoratory terms for dope smokers.
Contributor's comments: Definitely "boon" was the popular form in Canberra in mid to late 80s. Fairly sure it had an association with the cricketer, David Boon.