Waddy vs Daddy - What's the difference?
waddy | daddy |
(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 ,
(usually, childish) father.
(informal) male lover.
* 1955 , (Ray Charles), Greenbacks
As nouns the difference between waddy and daddy
is that waddy is a cowboy while daddy is father.As a proper noun Daddy is
one's father.waddy
English
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 .
daddy
English
(wikipedia daddy)Noun
(daddies)- She looked at me with that familiar desire
- Her eyes lit up like they were on fire
- She said, "My name's Flo, and you're on the right track,
- But look here, daddy , I wear furs on my back,
- So if you want to have fun in this man's land,
- Let Lincoln and Jackson start shaking hands."
