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▪ I. ˈpoddy, a. and n. colloq.
[f. pod n.2 + -y.]
A. adj.
1. Corpulent, obese.
1844E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 138 It is a grievous thing to grow poddy: the age of Chivalry is gone then.
2. (See sense B. 1 b below.)
B. n. (Austral.)
1. a. An unbranded calf.
1893K. Mackay Out Back (ed. 2) i. v. 75, I did occasionally put my brand by mistake on one of Massey's ‘poddies’. 1907G. B. Lancaster Tracks we Tread iii. 52 [The wild cattle] were a mixed haul: two-year-olds, poddies and pikers. 1950[see clean-skins s.v. clean- 2.].
b. In full poddy calf (poddy foal, etc.). A calf (less commonly a lamb or foal) fed by hand.
1898Bulletin (Sydney) 8 Jan. (Red Page), Prof. Morris [in Austral English] defines ‘Poddy’ as ‘a Vic. name for sand-mullet’, but leaves out its meaning of motherless calf or foal (common in the bush). A poddy calf or a poddy foal is heard all over Australia. 1901M. Franklin My Brilliant Career v. 24 It was my duty to ‘rare the poddies’. 1908Bulletin (Sydney) 30 Jan. 14, I saw a boy..driving back to pasture his flock of sixty or seventy newly shorn ‘poddies’, and it reminded me that the ewe is about the most indifferent mother in the bush. 1911E. M. Clowes On Wallaby iii. 66 He drives off with the separated milk—due from the day before for his poddy-calves. 1927B. Cronin Red Dawson xliii. 194 His whole outfit was five old cows and a coupler poddies. 1930H. S. Palmer Men are Human xxv. 235 He's tame as a poddy calf. 1963A. Lubbock Austral. Roundabout 5 The kitchen range..had saucepans of milk, and babies' bottles and teats, boiling on the top to feed the ‘poddies’, as hand-fed calves and lambs are called.
2. attrib. and Comb., as poddy swill; poddy-rearing vbl. n.; poddy-dodger, one who steals unbranded calves; a cattle rustler; also poddy-dodging vbl. n.
1934Bulletin (Sydney) 1 Aug. 46/3 Nine *poddy-dodgers out of ten gets caught the same way. 1953A. Moorehead Rum Jungle ii. 30 The cattle rustlers—known as ‘poddy dodgers’—followed close behind. 1970Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 30 Aug. 3/5 His practice, as a ‘poddy⁓dodger’, was to steal branded cows and cleanskin calves from neighbours, then remove the calves from their mothers before they were ready.
1945T. Ronan Strangers on Ophir 9 He'll be a doctor or a lawyer or a banker with no need to go *poddy-dodging for a living like his old jail⁓bird of a Dad. 1950‘N. Shute’ Town like Alice ix. 263 They'll come on to your station and round up the poddys and drive them off on to their own land, and then there's nothing to say they're yours. That's poddy-dodging. 1957R. S. Porteous Brigalow 61 Mick did a bit of poddy-dodging when things were slack... He might lift a few head of cleanskins now and then.
1901M. Franklin My Brilliant Career iii. 17 They do all the milkin' and pig-feedin', and *poddy-rarin'.
1941Coast to Coast 108 Tug Treloar carrying buckets of *poddy swill.
▪ II. poddy, v. Austral. colloq.|ˈpɒdɪ|
[f. poddy n.]
trans. To feed (a young animal) by hand.
1896H. Lawson While Billy Boils (1897) 61 Then he ‘poddies’—hand-feeds—the calves which have been weaned too early. 1901M. Franklin My Brilliant Career iv. 20 He procured fifty milch-cows, the calves of which had to be ‘poddied’. 1908Bulletin (Sydney) 30 Jan. 14 The squatter knows that a deserted lamb will die, also he has no time to ‘poddy’ it. 1931V. Palmer Separate Lives 176 When her [sc. the filly's] mother died, that old drover said I could have her... And I did rear her, bought condensed milk to poddy her for months. |