name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
waddy
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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/ˈwɒdi/
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rhymes with -ɒdi
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CMU ARPABET: W AA1 D IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A cowboy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial
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noun
Meaning 3
A club or heavy stick used by Aboriginal Australians for fighting and hunting; a nulla-nulla.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia
Examples
- 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.
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noun
Meaning 4
A piece of wood; a stick or peg; also, a walking stick.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia
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verb
Meaning 5
To strike or beat with a waddy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, transitive
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History
Etymology
Unknown.
Borrowed from Dharug wadi (“stick, weapon”).