waddy

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈwɒdi/ Rhymes: -ɒdi === Etymology 1 === Unknown. ==== Noun ==== waddy (plural waddies) (colloquial) A cowboy. === Etymology 2 === Borrowed from Dharug wadi (“stick, weapon”). ==== Alternative forms ==== waddie ==== Noun ==== waddy (plural waddies) (Australia) A club or heavy stick used by Aboriginal Australians for fighting and hunting; a nulla-nulla. 1840 May—August, Robert Montgomery Martin (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. (Australia) A piece of wood; a stick or peg; also, a walking stick. ===== Derived terms ===== waddywood ==== Verb ==== waddy (third-person singular simple present waddies, present participle waddying, simple past and past participle waddied) (Australia, transitive) To strike or beat with a waddy. === Anagrams === Dawdy