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

Noun Inflected Forms

• waddies
  plural

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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

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

waddy waddies

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 William MacLeod Raine

Their principal weapon for fighting is the waddy or club, and each tribe has a peculiar shape for its waddies.

From The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent by Thomas Wallace Knox

"No; but the signs here show he has been branding, and Buck Weaver ran across these same marks left by a waddy who surely was making free with a Twin Star calf."

From Mavericks by William MacLeod Raine

The third person of the band was twice the height of the others, and held in his hand something resembling the waddy or wooden sword of the natives of Port Jackson.

From Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 by George Grey

Now I could refer to your editors as "bowlegged waddies," "brocklefaced bozos," "drugstore caballeros" or "maverick-roping rustlers," and perhaps accomplish nothing but a feeling of resentment on their part.

From Time Magazine Archive

There were three worleys on the rising ground, with waddies, boomerangs, spears, and a number of broken dishes scattered round them.

From Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart by John McDouall Stuart

I dismounted and walked up within five yards of them, when I stopped short from a mutual disinclination for too close quarters, as they were armed with spears and waddies.

From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Ludwig Leichhardt

Numerous old native camps surrounded the water, and many weapons, spears, waddies, and coolimans were lying about.

From Spinifex and Sand by David Wynford Carnegie

Well, if any of you waddies are calculatin' marryin' this filly you've got to build to her.

From The Last Straw by Harold Titus

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