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▪ I. waddy1 Austral.|ˈwɒdɪ|
Also 9 waddie, whaddie.
[In use among Australian Aboriginals; perh. a native word, but possibly a corruption of Eng. wood.]
a. An Aboriginal war-club.
[1788D. Southwell in Hist. Rec. New South Wales (1893) II. 698 A stick or club, wad-di or wad-dty.] 1800J. Hunter in Hist. Rec. Austral. (1914) I. ii. 406 They had each a Spear and a Warmaraa and a Waddy. 1807J. Savage Some Acct. N.Z. viii. 52 The men..carry a waddy..in figure somewhat resembling a large battledore..usually formed of hard black stone. 1814Flinders Voy. II. 189 Something resembling the whaddie, or wooden sword of the natives of Port Jackson. 1818J. Oxley Jrnls. Two Exped. N.S. Wales (1820) 226 After beating their spears and waddies together for about a quarter of an hour,..they went away. 1852Mundy Our Antipodes iv. (1855) 101 The waddy is a heavy, knobbed club, about two feet long. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer xviii, Blows from the unerring waddy. 1892J. Fraser Aborigines of N.S. Wales 74 A general name for all Australian clubs is ‘waddy’, and, although they are really clubs, they are often used as missiles in battle.
attrib.a1904W. Craig Adv. Austral. Goldf. 283 The waddy blows inflicted..resulted in terrible injuries.
b. transf. Any club or stick; spec. a walking-stick.
1899‘S. Rudd’ On Our Selection 19 We each carried a kerosine tin, slung like a kettle-drum, and belted it with a waddy. 1936M. Franklin All that Swagger 88 None of that bad language or I'll take a waddy to you. 1972Southerly XXXII. 200 Freeth had offered him the use of his cane—his ‘waddy’, as he called it—after the first week. 1974K. Cook Bloodhouse 31 She had seen him..smash his ebony waddy hard down on his neck.
Hence ˈwaddy v. trans., to strike, beat, or kill, with a waddy.
1855Ld. Sherbrooke Poems (1885) 100 The black thieves appeared, My shepherds they waddied, my cattle they speared. 1859Huxley Let. 25 June in L. Huxley Life & Lett. (1903) I. xiii. 252 The fellows who waddied the Amphitherium and speared the Phascolotherium. 1890Melbourne Argus 16 Aug. 4/8 He waddied Kate pretty near to death when he got to camp that night.
▪ II. waddy2 U.S. slang.|ˈwɒdɪ|
Also waddie.
[Origin uncertain.]
A cattle rustler; a cowboy, esp. a temporary cowhand.
1897E. Hough Story of Cowboy 279 A genuine rustler was called a ‘waddy’, a name difficult to trace to its origin. 1927J. Lomax Cowboy Songs 374 He rides a fancy horse, he's a favorite man, Can get more credit than a common waddie can. 1931W. Rogers in S. K. Gragert Will Rogers' Weekly Articles (1982) V. 470 You town waddies know what a Combine is? |