Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (obsolete spelling of body English) Etymology 2
n. (context Scotland English) A hobgoblin.''Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged''. Merriam-Webster, 2002. http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com (17 Aug 2011) Etymology 3
n. (context Australia English) A species of bettong, (taxlink Bettongia lesueur species noshow=1).
Wikipedia
The boodie (Bettongia lesueur), also known as the burrowing bettong, is a small marsupial. Its population is an example of the effects of introduced animals on Australian fauna and ecosystems. Once the most common macropodiform mammal on the whole continent, the boodie now only lives on off-lying islands and in a newly introduced population on the mainland at Shark Bay. This animal, first collected during an 1817 French expedition of the west coast, was named after Charles Lesueur, an artist and naturalist who accompanied a previous French expedition. B. lesueur is known by many common names, including the tungoo, Lesueur’s rat-kangaroo, and the short-nosed rat-kangaroo.
Usage examples of "boodie".
A long way from church or parish-school, and without any, nearer than several miles, to minister to the spiritual wants of the people, it was a rather rough and ignorant place, with a good many superstitions-- none of them in their nature specially mischievous, except indeed as they blurred the idea of divine care and government--just the country for bogill-baes and brownie-baes, boodies and water-kelpies to linger and disport themselves, long after they had elsewhere disappeared!