Pondy vs Poddy - What's the difference?
pondy | poddy |
Resembling a pond; pondlike
*{{quote-book, year=1851, author=Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, title=Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Our tea was made of a brown pondy liquid, which looked like water in a tanner's vat. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1911, author=Dallas Lore Sharp, title=Roof and Meadow, chapter=, edition=
, passage=And faint across the creek, the road, and the fields lay the pondy smell of spatter-docks. }}
* 2011 , (Gnomeo and Juliet)
*:Juliet, is there something wrong with the pond?
*:No, it's fine, I mean, it's just as pondy as ever.
(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,
Fat, corpulent.
(uncomparable, Australia, of a young animal) Fed by hand.
* 1901 , ,
* 1964 , New South Wales Department of Agriculture, The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales , Volume 74,
* 2008 , Barry Heard, The View from Connor?s Hill ,
(Australia) An unbranded calf.
(Australia) A hand-fed calf or lamb (a young animal needing milk or milk-substitute).
* 1901 , ,
* 1904 , Bush Courtin?'', ''Australian Ballads & Short Stories , 2003, Penguin, p. 268,
* 2011 , Ali Lewis, Everybody Jam ,
(Australia, Victoria) An immature mullet.
(Australia) To hand-feed (a young animal).
* 1907 , , Human Toll , 2007, Echo Library,
As adjectives the difference between pondy and poddy
is that pondy is resembling a pond; pondlike while poddy is (uncomparable) of or pertaining to a pod or pods.As a noun poddy is
(australia) an unbranded calf.As a verb poddy is
(australia) to hand-feed (a young animal).pondy
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Adjective
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poddy
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Adjective
(er)page 88,
- the second cutting each season was allowed to become poddy , i.e., to set seed pods.
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.
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.
page 56,
- The first really positive change came about when Mum arrived home with a poddy lamb.
Noun
(poddies)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.
- When the milkin? music?s ended, and the big cans stacked away, / An? the poddies have done drinkin?, an? the neddies chew their hay
unnumbered page,
- She said I had to show Liz how to feed the poddies , the pigs and Buzz.
Usage notes
A poddy calf is always a hand-fed one.Synonyms
* (unbranded calf) * (hand-fed young animal)Derived terms
* poddy-dodgerSee also
* dogie, placerVerb
page 110,
- ‘Ell ov a trouble t? poddy', miss, them lambs, but Queeby used t? ' poddy any Gord?s quantity’ remarked Nungi.