Fiddy vs Widdy - What's the difference?
fiddy | widdy |
(nonstandard, African American Vernacular English) fifty
(Scotland) A rope or halter made of flexible twigs, or withes, as of birch.
* 1877 —
As a numeral fiddy
is fifty.As a noun widdy is
a rope or halter made of flexible twigs, or withes, as of birch.fiddy
English
Numeral
(head)Synonyms
* fitty English cardinal numberswiddy
English
Etymology 1
Compare (withy).Noun
(widdies)Etymology 2
Noun
(widdies)- I'm no saucy minx and giddy—
Hussies such as them abound—
But a clean and tidy widdy
Well be-known for miles around.