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Paddy vs Poddy - What's the difference?

paddy | poddy |

As nouns the difference between paddy and poddy

is that paddy is an irish person while poddy is (australia) an unbranded calf.

As a proper noun paddy

is an irish nickname for patrick.

As an adjective poddy is

(uncomparable) of or pertaining to a pod or pods.

As a verb poddy is

(australia) to hand-feed (a young animal).

paddy

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(paddies)
  • Rice, before it is milled.
  • An irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown.

    • See also

    * paddy paw

    Etymology 2

    English dialect .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Low; mean; boorish; vagabond.
  • * Digges (1585)
  • * John Lothrop Motley
    • Even after the expiration of four months the condition of the paddy persons continued most destitute. The English soldiers became mere barefoot starving beggars in the streets
    (Webster 1913)

    poddy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (uncomparable) Of or pertaining to a pod or pods.
  • * 1944 , New Mexico State University Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin of the Agricultural Experiment Station, New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts , Issues 318-329, page 88,
    • the second cutting each season was allowed to become poddy , i.e., to set seed pods.
  • Fat, corpulent.
  • (uncomparable, Australia, of a young animal) Fed by hand.
  • * 1901 , , page 207,
    • One of my half-starved poddy calves was very ill, and I went out to doctor it previous to bathing and tidying myself for my finishing household duties.
  • * 1964 , New South Wales Department of Agriculture, The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales , Volume 74, page 646,
    • Constant handling will cause mis-mothering, leading to deaths and a number of poddy' lambs. ' Poddy lambs are slow to grow and often fail to reach marketable weight under eight months of age.
  • * 2008 , Barry Heard, The View from Connor?s Hill , page 56,
    • The first really positive change came about when Mum arrived home with a poddy lamb.

    Noun

    (poddies)
  • (Australia) An unbranded calf.
  • (Australia) A hand-fed calf or lamb (a young animal needing milk or milk-substitute).
  • * 1901 , , page 207,
    • I did not turn to ascertain who it might be, but trusted it was no one of importance, as the poddy and I presented rather a grotesque appearance.
  • * 1904 , Bush Courtin?'', ''Australian Ballads & Short Stories , 2003, Penguin, p. 268,
    • When the milkin? music?s ended, and the big cans stacked away, / An? the poddies have done drinkin?, an? the neddies chew their hay
  • * 2011 , Ali Lewis, Everybody Jam , unnumbered page,
    • She said I had to show Liz how to feed the poddies , the pigs and Buzz.
  • (Australia, Victoria) An immature mullet.

    • Usage notes

    A poddy calf is always a hand-fed one.

    Synonyms

    * (unbranded calf) * (hand-fed young animal)

    Derived terms

    * poddy-dodger

    See also

    * dogie, placer

    Verb

  • (Australia) To hand-feed (a young animal).
  • * 1907 , , Human Toll , 2007, Echo Library, page 110,
    • ‘Ell ov a trouble t? poddy', miss, them lambs, but Queeby used t? ' poddy any Gord?s quantity’ remarked Nungi.

    References

    * The Oxford Paperback Dictionary