different between waddie vs waddy
waddie
English
Noun
waddie (plural waddies)
- Alternative spelling of waddy
waddie From the web:
- what does waddle mean
- what does waddies
- what rhymes with waddle
- meaning of waddle
waddy
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?w?di/
Etymology 1
Unknown
Noun
waddy (plural waddies)
- (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.
- 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses:
Etymology 2
From Dharug wadi (“stick, weapon”).
Alternative forms
- waddie
Noun
waddy (plural waddies)
- (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.
- 1839, William Mann, Six Years' Residence in the Australian Provinces, page 156,
- 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)
- (transitive) To attack or beat with an Aboriginal war club.
Anagrams
- Dawdy
waddy From the web:
- waddy meaning
- waddy what does it mean
- what is waddy wachtel worth
- what does waddy mean in australia
- what does waddy mean slang
- whaddya think
- what does wadding
- what is waddy ky zip code
Share
Tweet
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
you may also like
- waddie vs waddy
- sayette vs layette
- playette vs layette
- baby vs layette
- clothing vs layette
- set vs layette
- translatory vs translator
- translators vs assemblers
- translatours vs translators
- parvis vs pervis
- pavis vs parvis
- church vs parvis
- porch vs parvis
- portico vs parvis
- cathedral vs parvis
- courtyard vs parvis
- parvise vs parvis
- parvis vs paradise
- terms vs pervis
- persis vs pervis