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Waddy vs Caddy - What's the difference?

waddy | caddy |

As nouns the difference between waddy and caddy

is that waddy is a cowboy while caddy is one hired to assist another in playing the game of golf.

As a verb caddy is

to serve as a caddy, carrying golf clubs etc.

waddy

English

Etymology 1

Origin unknown.

Alternative forms

* waddie

Noun

(waddies)
  • (colloquial) A cowboy.
  • * 1992 , , All the Pretty Horses ,
    • This is how it was with the old waddies , aint it?
  • * 1968 , , True Grit ,
    • 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)
  • (Australia) A war club used by Aboriginal Australians; a nulla nulla.
  • * 1839 , William Mann, Six Years' Residence in the Australian Provinces , 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.
  • * 1840 May—August, (editor), Van Diemen's Land'', ''The Colonial Magazine and Commercial-maritime Journal , Volume 2, 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.
  • * 2008 , Doreen Kartinyeri, Sue Anderson, Doreen Kartinyeri: My Ngarrindjeri Calling , 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 .

    caddy

    English

    Alternative forms

    * caddie

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) '', from the (etyl) ''cadet .

    Noun

    (caddies)
  • (golf) One hired to assist another in playing the game of golf.
    • "Caddy , pass me my five iron."

    Verb

  • (golf) To serve as a caddy , carrying golf clubs etc.
    • I was honored to caddy for Tiger Woods at a charity golf game.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) kati .

    Noun

    (caddies)
  • A small box, can, or chest to keep tea in.
    • Derived terms
    * tea caddy

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