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Spoddy vs Poddy - What's the difference?

spoddy | poddy |

As adjectives the difference between spoddy and poddy

is that spoddy is (informal) like a spod; swotty; dorky 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).

spoddy

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (informal) Like a spod; swotty; dorky.
  • * (Joanna Trollope), A Spanish Lover
    • Remember those French boys we had to have at school? They were utterly spoddy .

    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