A person who steals unbranded cattle.
the cattle were forced on to the hills, where they were easy picking for the old poddy dodger
Example sentencesExamples
- They didn't want him on the place because they classed him as a poddy-dodger.
- He was the poddy-dodger who trained Ned Kelly.
- I learnt that trick off an old poddy-dodger.
- I was worried we might be dealing with poddy dodgers instead of straying cattle.
- Elegantly clad in the latest fashion, the poddy dodger lived it up in Sydney's best hotels.
- Dad had fought with the Anzacs and had been an artful poddy dodger.
- They over-reacted to the threat of poddy dodgers on their boundaries.
- I was a poddy dodger in the wild country on the Kimberley coast.
- And I won't even ask how long you've been 'saving' my cattle for me, you thieving old poddy dodger.
- The place was notorious as a poddy-dodger's paradise.