different between paddy vs poddy

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pædi/
• Rhymes: -ædi

Etymology 1

From Malay padi (“paddy plant”).

Noun

paddy (plural paddies)

1. Rough or unhusked rice, either before it is milled or as a crop to be harvested. [from 17th c.]
   • 2011, Deepika Phukan, translating Arupa Patangia Kalita, The Story of Felanee:

     Taking out a handful of paddy the old woman exclaimed, “Look how good this paddy is! It is called Malbhog – it makes excellent puffed rice.”

2. A paddy field, a rice paddy; an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown. [from 20th c.]

Translations

See also

• paddy paw

Etymology 2

English dialect paddy (“worm-eaten”).

Adjective

paddy (comparative more paddy, superlative most paddy)

1. (obsolete) Low; mean; boorish; vagabond.
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   • 1860, John Lothrop Motley, The United Netherlands

     Even after the expiration of four months the condition of the paddy persons continued most destitute. The English soldiers became mere barefoot starving beggars in the streets […]

Etymology 3

Possibly from Paddy (“Irishman”)

Noun

paddy (plural paddies)

1. A fit of temper; a tantrum

   throw a paddy etc.

   • 2013, Mike Brown, Adventures with Czech George (page 17)

     I like the story of the Emperor Frederick who got into a paddy with his cook, and shouted: 'I am the Emperor, and I want dumplings.'

2. (African-American Vernacular, slang) A white person.
3. (colloquial, England) A labourer's assistant or workmate.
4. A drill used in boring wells, with cutters that expand on pressure.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:tantrum

English

Etymology

From pod +? -y.

Pronunciation

Adjective

poddy (comparative poddier, superlative poddiest)

1. (not comparable) Of or pertaining to a pod or pods.
   • 1944, New Mexico State University Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin of the Agricultural Experiment Station, New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Issues 318-329, page 88,

     […] the second cutting each season was allowed to become poddy, i.e., to set seed pods.

2. Fat, corpulent.
3. (not comparable, Australia, of a young animal) Fed by hand.
   • 1901, Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career, page 207,

     One of my half-starved poddy calves was very ill, and I went out to doctor it previous to bathing and tidying myself for my finishing household duties.

   • 1964, New South Wales Department of Agriculture, The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, Volume 74, page 646,

     Constant handling will cause mis-mothering, leading to deaths and a number of poddy lambs. Poddy lambs are slow to grow and often fail to reach marketable weight under eight months of age.

   • 2008, Barry Heard, The View from Connor?s Hill, page 56,

     The first really positive change came about when Mum arrived home with a poddy lamb.

Noun

poddy (plural poddies)

1. (Australia) An unbranded calf.
2. (Australia) A hand-fed calf or lamb (a young animal needing milk or milk-substitute).
   • 1901, Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career, page 207,

     I did not turn to ascertain who it might be, but trusted it was no one of importance, as the poddy and I presented rather a grotesque appearance.

   • 1904, Bush Courtin?, Australian Ballads & Short Stories, 2003, Penguin, p. 268,

     When the milkin? music?s ended, and the big cans stacked away, / An? the poddies have done drinkin?, an? the neddies chew their hay

   • 2011, Ali Lewis, Everybody Jam, unnumbered page,

     She said I had to show Liz how to feed the poddies, the pigs and Buzz.

3. (Australia, Victoria) An immature mullet.

Usage notes

A poddy calf is always a hand-fed one.

Synonyms

• (unbranded calf):
• (hand-fed young animal):

Derived terms

• poddy-dodger

See also

• dogie, placer

Verb

poddy (third-person singular simple present poddies, present participle poddying, simple past and past participle poddied)

1. (Australia) To hand-feed (a young animal).
   • 1907, Barbara Baynton, Human Toll, 2007, Echo Library, page 110,

     ‘Ell ov a trouble t? poddy, miss, them lambs, but Queeby used t? poddy any Gord?s quantity’ remarked Nungi.

References

• The Oxford Paperback Dictionary