different between waddy vs caddy

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

English

Alternative forms

• caddie

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kædi/
• Rhymes: -ædi
• Homophones: cattie, catty (in dialects with flapping)

Etymology 1

From Scots caddie, from the French cadet. Doublet of cadet, caudillo, and capitellum.

Noun

caddy (plural caddies)

1. (golf) One hired to assist another in playing the game of golf.

   "Caddy, pass me my five iron."

Translations

Verb

caddy (third-person singular simple present caddies, present participle caddying, simple past and past participle caddied)

1. (intransitive, golf) To serve as a caddy, carrying golf clubs etc.

   I was honored to caddy for Tiger Woods at a charity golf game.

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Malay kati, a weight.

Noun

caddy (plural caddies)

1. A small box, can, or chest to keep things in.
   • 1990, The Washingtonian (volume 25, page 121)

     A sauce caddy brought with the tacos offers a choice of salsa cruda, a thin puree of tomatillos, and an emulsion of red chilies.

   • 2019, Nancy E. Davis, The Chinese Lady: Afong Moy in Early America:

     The Carneses imported lacquer teapoys in sets. These sets could be easily stacked in a corner of the drawing room and brought out at teatime to hold a teacup, a set, or a caddy. The Carneses purchased lacquered teapoys sets for four dollars in China and probably sold them for twice that amount in America.

2. A movable tray or other mechanism for holding, securing, and transporting a removable component within a piece of machinery or equipment.

   Place the disc in the DVD caddy.

Derived terms

• desk caddy
• tea caddy

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “caddy”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “caddie”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English caddy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.di/

Noun

caddy m (plural caddies or caddys)

1. (golf) caddy
   • 2016, Nora Roberts, Crime en fête.

2. golf cart
3. supermarket trolley
   • 2013, Jussi Adler-Olsen, Délivrance. La troisième enquête du département V.

Further reading

• “caddy” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).