different between waddy vs cosh

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

Translingual

Pronunciation

• English:
  • IPA^(key): /k??/, /k??se?t?/
  • Rhymes: -??

Symbol

cosh

1. (trigonometry) The symbol of the hyperbolic function hyperbolic cosine.

Usage notes

The symbol cosh is prescribed by the ISO 80000-2:2019 standard. The symbol ch is also in use, and is especially favoured in French- and Russian-language texts.

See also

• cos
• sinh
• tanh

English

Etymology 1

Probably from Romani košter (stick)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

cosh (plural coshes)

1. A weapon made of leather-covered metal similar to a blackjack.
2. A blunt instrument such as a bludgeon or truncheon.
3. (Britain, education, slang, dated) The cane.
   • 1959, Iona Opie, Peter Opie, The lore and language of schoolchildren (page 374)

     There is no need here to digress on the advantages or otherwise of using a 'cosh' in schools […]

   • 2019, John Loveday, The Boy from Rod Alley (page 115)

     Often, he walked around the room with the cosh in his hand, taking slashes at legs that happened to stray sideways […]

Derived terms

• liquid cosh
• under the cosh

Verb

cosh (third-person singular simple present coshes, present participle coshing, simple past and past participle coshed)

1. (transitive) To strike with a weapon of this kind.

See also

• bludgeon

Etymology 2

Adjective

cosh (comparative more cosh, superlative most cosh)

1. (Scotland) cosy; snug

Anagrams

• CHOs, COHs, Chos, OHCs, SOHC, Sohc