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Jody vs Fody - What's the difference?

jody | fody |

As nouns the difference between jody and fody

is that jody is a male civilian who romances a military man's wife or girlfriend in his absence while fody is any of various small passerine birds of the genus Foudia in the weaver family Ploceidae.

As a proper noun Jody

is a diminutive of Judith or Jo, also used as a formal female given name.

jody

English

Alternative forms

* (female given name) Jodi, Jodie

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A diminutive of Judith or Jo, also used as a formal female given name.
  • A diminutive of the male given name Joe or Joseph, also used as a formal male given name.

    • Noun

    (Jodies)
  • A male civilian who romances a military man's wife or girlfriend in his absence.
  • * {{quote-book, title=Camp all-American, Hanoi Jane, and the high-and-tight, page=31, author=Carol Burke, year=2004, passage=Even today in the Marine Corps or the Army, one calls a jody, not a marching chant. For the trainee, Jody is the clever civilian who brutally divorces the soldier from the civilian world by appropriating all his possessions and loved ones.
    • Ain't no use in callin home. Jody''s on your telephone. / Ain't no use in lookin' back. / '''Jody''''s got you Cadillac. / Ain't no use in goin' home. / '''Jody''''s got your girl and gone. / Ain't no use in feelin' blue. / ' Jody' s got your sister too.}}
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    • English diminutives of female given names English diminutives of male given names

    fody

    English

    Noun

    (fodies) (wikipedia fody)
  • Any of various small passerine birds of the genus Foudia'' in the weaver family ''Ploceidae .
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=June 20, author=Edward Rothstein, title=Critters of a Wondrous Isle, Meet Your Friend and Foe, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=“Only in Madagascar,” the labels proudly proclaim, next to descriptions of animals like the spiny-tail iguana, the radiated tortoise or a small bird, the red fody . }}