different between quadrella vs quaddie

English

Pronunciation

Noun

quadrella (plural quadrellas)

1. (gambling, horse racing, Australia, New Zealand) A bet where the bettor must pick the winners of four nominated races at the same track.
   • 2003 March 22, Craig Sherborne, Footy?s Man of Passion, The Herald Sun, republished in 2003, Garrie Hutchinson (editor), The Best Australian Sports Writing 2003, page 79,

     Demetriou is an inveterate punter with a miraculous instinct for picking big quadrellas.

   • 2009, H. G. Nelson (Greig Pickhaver), Sprays: A Collection of Verbal Touch-Ups, unnumbered page,

     Imagine jagging a couple of nice trifectas or the quadrella and squaring the Christmas credit-card bill, with a little extra left for a three-week holiday at Victor Harbor. Magic!

   • 2010, Stephen Barkoczy. Australian Tax Casebook, 10th Edition, CCH Australia, page 416,

     Instead, the taxpayer relied on his own intuition, placed bets mainly on the totalisator or with on-course bookmakers and was more inclined to place “higher risk” bets such as trifectas and quadrellas.

Derived terms

• quaddie (diminutive synonym)

See also

• quadfecta

English

Etymology

From quadrella +? -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

Pronunciation

Noun

quaddie (plural quaddies)

1. (Australia, gambling, horse racing, colloquial) A quadrella, a type of bet requiring the bettor to pick the winners of four nominated races at the same track; a bet requiring the selection of four winners of specified matches in a given round of a sporting competition.
   • 2003 March 22, Craig Sherborne, Footy?s Man of Passion, The Herald Sun, republished in 2003, Garrie Hutchinson (editor), The Best Australian Sports Writing 2003, page 82,

     He was a footballer, hard-boned, smart-mouthed, with an eye on the quaddie at Flemington.

   • 2006, Mike Dillon, From The Horses Mouth: The Keith Haub Story, 2010, HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand), unnumbered page,

     With only the last race to run the trio each had a $1 quaddie unit if Brent Thomson managed to get over the line in front.

Synonyms

• quadrella