Waddie vs Waddy - What's the difference?
waddie | waddy | Alternative forms |
* {{quote-book, year=1829, author=Various, title=The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 13,, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Their weapons of defence are the spear and waddie ; the former is about twelve feet long, and as thick as the little finger of a man; the tea-tree supplies them with this matchless weapon; they harden one end, which is very sharply pointed, by burning and filing it with a flint prepared for the purpose. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1846, author=Ludwig Leichhardt, title=Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia, chapter=, edition=
, passage=We found shells of Cymbium and Cytherea, an enormous waddie , which could have been wielded only by a powerful arm, nets and various instruments for fishing, in their deserted camp. }} (colloquial) A cowboy.
* 1992 , , All the Pretty Horses ,
* 1968 , , True Grit ,
(Australia) A war club used by Aboriginal Australians; a nulla nulla.
* 1839 , William Mann, Six Years' Residence in the Australian Provinces ,
* 1840 May—August, (editor), Van Diemen's Land'', ''The Colonial Magazine and Commercial-maritime Journal , Volume 2,
* 2008 , Doreen Kartinyeri, Sue Anderson, Doreen Kartinyeri: My Ngarrindjeri Calling ,
Waddy is a alternative form of waddie.
As nouns the difference between waddie and waddy
is that waddie is an alternative spelling of lang=en while waddy is a cowboy.waddie
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Noun
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waddy
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Etymology 1
Origin unknown.Alternative forms
* waddieNoun
(waddies)- This is how it was with the old waddies , aint it?
- If I ever meet one of you Texas waddies that says he never drank from a horse track I think I will shake his hand and give him a Daniel Webster cigar.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(waddies)page 156,
- After waiting for some time, and nothing being done, I began to think that the settlement tribes were afraid of the mountaineers, whose chosen warriors advanced in a line, striking their shields with their waddies', singing their war-cry, wa-ah ! wa-ah ! wa-ah ! aa-ho ! aa-ho ! aa-ho ! hi-hi-hi !—I should have told you that many of the Amity Paint tribe, which is more numerous than the other two settlement tribes, were deficient of spears and shields, having nothing but ' waddies and boomerangs.
page 76,
- In the mean while women, children, and remote stock-keepers fell under the unerring spears or death-dealing waddies of an enemy, the first indication of whose appearance was consectaneous with the stroke that reft his victim of life.
page 20,
- The kids would copy the men to make their own cricket stumps, but no-one was allowed to touch Grandfather's special wood for making waddies .