waddy

¹ American  

[wod-ee] / ˈwɒd i /

noun

waddies plural

1. a heavy wooden war club used by Australian Aboriginal peoples.

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verb (used with object)

waddied, waddying

1. to beat or strike with a waddy.

waddy ² American  

[wod-ee] / ˈwɒd i /

Or waddie

noun

waddies plural

1. Cowboy Slang, Western U.S.. a cowboy.

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waddy British  

/ ˈwɒdɪ /

noun

1. a heavy wooden club used as a weapon by native Australians

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verb

1. (tr) to hit with a waddy

Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

• waddies
  plural

Etymology

Origin of waddy¹

First recorded in 1795–1805, waddy is from the Dharuk word wa-di “stick”

Origin of waddy²

An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900; origin uncertain

Example Sentences

Peter Ustinov, playing an unmarried remittance man who has to beat the girls off with a waddy, makes a comical old dag.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had rescued the captured waddy from the hands of the incensed ranchers and brought him straight to Live-Oaks.

From A Man Four-Square by Raine, William MacLeod

“All rightums,” cried Jimmy: “but gettum waddy back, gibs um bang, bang—knockum downum—whack, whack—bangum, bangum!”

From Bunyip Land A Story of Adventure in New Guinea by Browne, Gordon

Jimmy leaped up from where he had been squirming, as Jack Penny called it, on the ground, and began to bound about, brandishing his waddy, and killing nothing with blows on the head.

From Bunyip Land A Story of Adventure in New Guinea by Browne, Gordon

Waddy, wad′i, n. a native Australian wooden war-club, a walking-stick—also Wadd′ie.—v.t. to strike with a waddy.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various