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Poddier vs Podder - What's the difference?

poddier | podder |

As an adjective poddier

is (poddy).

As a noun podder is

one who collects pods or pulse.

poddier

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (poddy)

    • 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

    podder

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who collects pods or pulse.
  • * 1807 , Society of Arts (Great Britain), The Complete Farmer
    • And it is added, that it is frequently a practice with the large cultivators of early green pea crops, in the neighbourhood of London, to dispose of them, by the acre, to inferior persons, who procure the podders
    (Webster 1913)