saddie
/ˈsædi/
saddie noun: something or someone sad.
Noun (1)
saddie (plural saddies)
- Something or someone sad.
- Someone who lives a boring, unfulfilling or sad life.
- This is primarily because these older women feel they will soon have to 'give up' or 'let go' of 'raving', so that they don't become what one woman has described as 'saddies'. All interviewees are white, and although they were not asked[…]1997 July 21, Helen Thomas, Dance in the City, Springer, →ISBN, page 119
- Synonyms:
- saddo
- A sad movie or TV show; a tearjerker.
- I watched Marley & Me last night; it was a real saddie.
- Synonyms:
- tearjerker, cryfest, sobfest
- Synonym of frowny face.
- The sad smileys were becuase^([sic]) I wouldn't get to speak to Debs. Some of the sentences have more saddies (surely you can't have a sad smiley; it's time they had a word of their own) than others because I wasn't expecting to be enjoying myself on those occasions. As for the single saddie for my...1996 September 3, GulPlum, “Just to say Greetings!”, in uk.media.tv.sf.startrek (Usenet), archived from the original on 13 Apr 2026
- Could someone help me out a bit with these little newsgroup symbols? I know about happies :) and saddies :(, but I can tell by this thread that in the future I may need to make use of . . . sarcasm. :) er, I mean :( or maybe @=<:1997 December 13, Tjkphoto, “What is PYRO??”, in rec.photo.darkroom (Usenet), archived from the original on 13 Apr 2026
- Synonyms:
- frowny face
Noun (2)
saddie (plural saddies)
- A saddle.
- ... handlebar stems , mudguards , rims , transmission - chain covers , wheels , reflectors , luggage racks , handle - bar grips , clothes protectors , saddies and part of saddles for cycles with an auxiliary motor ( heading No.1962, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, Trade Expansion Act of 1962: Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress...
Examples of saddie in a sentence
- Some of the sentences have more saddies (surely you can't have a sad smiley; it's time they had a word of their own) than others because I wasn't expecting to be enjoying myself on those occasions.1996 September 3, GulPlum, “Just to say Greetings!”, in uk.media.tv.sf.startrek (Usenet), archived from the original on 13 Apr 2026:
- I do *not* lard my posts with smileys and frownies and saddies, preferring purely textual communication...which can, no doubt, be best read by those with interline reading capacity.1998 March 26, Jason Christian, “RFD: soc.culture.padania”, in news.groups (Usenet), archived from the original on 13 Apr 2026:
- I refuse to use smileys, or saddies or any other kind of squiggle, so I get misunderstood a lot.1998 September 16, Ford Prefect, “Damon and Monza (Spoiler)”, in alt.damonhill (Usenet), archived from the original on 13 Apr 2026:
Synonyms of saddie
Forms of saddie
| plural | saddies |
|---|
Origin of saddie
From sad + -ie.
From sadd(le) + -ie.
Words that rhyme with saddie
Questions about saddie
- What does saddie mean?
- Saddie means something or someone sad.
- How do you use saddie in a sentence?
- Some of the sentences have more saddies (surely you can't have a sad smiley; it's time they had a word of their own) than others because I wasn't expecting to be enjoying myself on those occasions.
- What part of speech is saddie?
- Saddie is a noun.
- How do you pronounce saddie?
- Saddie is pronounced /ˈsædi/.
- What is the plural of saddie?
- The plural of saddie is saddies.
Words near saddie in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: saddie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “saddie.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/saddie. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.