different between mace vs waddy

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /me?s/
• Rhymes: -e?s

Etymology 1

From Middle English mace, borrowed from Old French mace, mache, from Vulgar Latin *mattia, *mattea (compare Italian mazza, Spanish maza), probably from Latin mateola (“hoe”).

Noun

mace (plural maces)

1. A heavy fighting club.
   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 51.

     The Mace is an ancient weapon, formerly much used by cavalry of all nations, and likewise by ecclesiastics, who in consequence of their tenures, frequently took the field, but were by a canon of the church forbidden to wield the sword.

2. A ceremonial form of this weapon.
3. A long baton used by some drum majors to keep time and lead a marching band. If this baton is referred to as a mace, by convention it has a ceremonial often decorative head, which, if of metal, usually is hollow and sometimes intricately worked.
4. An officer who carries a mace as an emblem of authority.
5. A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple.
6. (archaic) A billiard cue.

Translations

Verb

mace (third-person singular simple present maces, present participle macing, simple past and past participle maced)

1. To hit someone or something with a mace.

See also

• bludgeon
• celt
• twirling baton
• warclub

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Javanese [Term?] and Malay [Term?], meaning "a bean".

Noun

mace (plural maces)

1. An old money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael.
2. An old weight of 57.98 grains.
   • 1883, Samuel Wells Williams, The Middle Kingdom: A Survey of the Geography, Government, Education, Social Life, Arts, Religion, &c., of the Chinese Empire and Its Inhabitants

     The decimals of the tael, called mace, candareen, and cash (tsien, f?n, and li) , are employed in reckoning bullion.

Etymology 3

From Middle English, from re-interpretation of macis as a plural (as with pea); from Latin macir.

Noun

mace

1. A spice obtained from the outer layer of the kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg.
   • 1610, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, Act IV, Scene III, line 45.

     I must have saffron to color the warden pies; mace; dates, none -- that's out of my note; nutmegs, seven; a race or two of ginger, but that I may beg; four pounds of prunes, and as many of raisins o' th' sun.

Translations

Etymology 4

From the name of one brand of the spray, Mace. Pepper spray may be derived from cayenne pepper, but not from mace (definition 3 above), which is a different spice.

Noun

mace (plural maces)

1. Tear gas or pepper spray, especially for personal use.

Translations

Verb

mace (third-person singular simple present maces, present participle macing, simple past and past participle maced)

1. To spray in defense or attack with mace (pepper spray or tear gas) using a hand-held device.
2. (informal) To spray a similar noxious chemical in defense or attack using an available hand-held device such as an aerosol spray can.
   • 1989, Carl Hiaasen, Skin Tight, Ballantine Books, New York, chapter 22:

     When Reynaldo and Willie had burst into Larkey's drug store to confront him, the old man had maced Willie square in the eyes with an aerosol can of spermicidal birth-control foam.

References

Anagrams

• ACME, Acme, ECMA, EMAC, acme, came, eMac

Albanian

Alternative forms

• maçe
• mac (eastern Gheg)
• macë

Etymology

Alternative variant of macë (“cat”), ultimately derived from Proto-Slavic *maca, likely an onomatopoeic expression.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mat?s?/ (Standard)
• IPA^(key): /mã?t?s/, /mõ?t?s/ (eastern Gheg)

Noun

máce f (indefinite plural máce, definite singular mácja, definite plural mácet)

1. (zoology) cat
2. (figuratively, derogatory) belligerent, wild woman

Declension

Related terms

• macë f
• mackë f
• maç m
• maçok m

See also

• dac

Further reading

• [1] noun mace/máce (cat) • Fjalor Shqip (Albanian Dictionary)

References

Hausa

Etymology

Derived from m??t? through an adverbial form.

Noun

màc? f (plural m?t?, possessed form màcèn)

1. woman
2. female

Usage notes

The possessed form may be seen as derogatory or ungrammatical by many speakers, and is often replaced by m??tar?, the possessed form of m??t?.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French mace, from Vulgar Latin *mattia, *mattea, probably from Latin mateola (“hoe”).

Alternative forms

• maas, masse, mase, maiis

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma?s(?)/

Noun

mace (plural maces)

2. A war club or mace.
3. A club used for ceremonial purposes or as part of regalia.

Related terms

• macer

Descendants

• English: mace
• Scots: mace

References

• “m?ce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-27.

Etymology 2

Noun

mace

1. Alternative form of masse

Old French

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *mattia, *mattea, itself probably derived from Latin mateola (“hoe”).

Noun

mace f (oblique plural maces, nominative singular mace, nominative plural maces)

1. mace (weapon)

Alternative forms

• mache (Picardy)

Descendants

• French: masse
• ? Middle English: mace, maas, masse, mase, maiis
  • English: mace
  • Scots: mace

Etymology 2

From Latin macir.

Noun

mace f (oblique plural maces, nominative singular mace, nominative plural maces)

1. mace (spice)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (mace, supplement)
• mace on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Spanish

Verb

mace

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of mazar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of mazar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of mazar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of mazar.

Taraon

Etymology

Compare Idu ????

Pronunciation

• (Darang Deng) IPA^(key): /m?³¹t?i?³/

Noun

mace

1. water

References

• Roger Blench, Mark Post, (De)classifying Arunachal languages: Reconstructing the evidence (2011) (as macey)
• Jatan Pulu, A Phrase Book on Taraon Language (1991) (as mace or in running text often mac?)
• Huang Bufan (editor), Xu Shouchun, Chen Jiaying, Wan Huiyin, A Tibeto-Burman Lexicon (1992; Central Minorities University, Beijing)

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w?di/

Etymology 1

Unknown

Noun

waddy (plural waddies)

1. (colloquial) A cowboy.
   • 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses:

     This is how it was with the old waddies, aint it?

   • 1968, Charles Portis, True Grit:

     If I ever meet one of you Texas waddies that says he never drank from a horse track I think I will shake his hand and give him a Daniel Webster cigar.

Etymology 2

From Dharug wadi (“stick, weapon”).

Alternative forms

• waddie

Noun

waddy (plural waddies)

1. (Australia) A war club used by Aboriginal Australians; a nulla nulla.
   • 1839, William Mann, Six Years' Residence in the Australian Provinces, page 156,

     After waiting for some time, and nothing being done, I began to think that the settlement tribes were afraid of the mountaineers, whose chosen warriors advanced in a line, striking their shields with their waddies, singing their war-cry, wa-ah ! wa-ah ! wa-ah ! aa-ho ! aa-ho ! aa-ho ! hi-hi-hi !—I should have told you that many of the Amity Paint tribe, which is more numerous than the other two settlement tribes, were deficient of spears and shields, having nothing but waddies and boomerangs.

   • 1840 May—August, Robert Montgomery Martin (editor), Van Diemen's Land, The Colonial Magazine and Commercial-maritime Journal, Volume 2, page 76,

     In the mean while women, children, and remote stock-keepers fell under the unerring spears or death-dealing waddies of an enemy, the first indication of whose appearance was consectaneous with the stroke that reft his victim of life.

   • 2008, Doreen Kartinyeri, Sue Anderson, Doreen Kartinyeri: My Ngarrindjeri Calling, page 20,

     The kids would copy the men to make their own cricket stumps, but no-one was allowed to touch Grandfather's special wood for making waddies.

2. A piece of wood; a stick or peg; also, a walking stick.

Derived terms

• waddywood

Verb

waddy (third-person singular simple present waddies, present participle waddying, simple past and past participle waddied)

1. (transitive) To attack or beat with an Aboriginal war club.

Anagrams

• Dawdy