waddy
/ˈwɒdi/
waddy noun: a cowboy.
Noun (1)
waddy (plural waddies)
- A cowboy.
- This is how it was with the old waddies, aint it?1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
- If I ever meet one of you Texas waddies that says he never drank from a horse track I think I will shake his hand and give him a Daniel Webster cigar.1968, Charles Portis, True Grit
Noun (2)
waddy (plural waddies)
- A club or heavy stick used by Aboriginal Australians for fighting and hunting; a nulla-nulla.
- I should have told you that many of the Amity Paint tribe, which is more numerous than the other two settlement tribes, were deficient of spears and shields, having nothing but waddies and boomerangs.1839, William Mann, Six Years' Residence in the Australian Provinces, page 156
- In the mean while women, children, and remote stock-keepers fell under the unerring spears or death-dealing waddies of an enemy, the first indication of whose appearance was consectaneous with the stroke that reft his victim of life.1840 May—August, Robert Montgomery Martin (editor), Van Diemen's Land, The Colonial Magazine and Commercial-maritime Journal, Volume 2, page 76
- A piece of wood; a stick or peg; also, a walking stick.
Verb
waddy (third-person singular simple present waddies, present participle waddying, simple past and past participle waddied)
Proper noun capitalized: Waddy
Waddy (plural Waddys)
- A surname.
waddy meaning in Tamil and Urdu
waddy in Tamil
- செண்டுத்தடி, ஆஸ்திரேலிய நாட்டுப் படைக்கலக்குறுந்தடி
waddy in Urdu
- ڈنڈا, مگدر
Forms of waddy
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | waddies |
| alternative form | waddie |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | waddies |
| present participle | waddying |
| past participle | waddied |
| past | waddied |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Waddys |
Origin of waddy
Unknown.
Borrowed from Dharug wadi (“stick, weapon”).
Words formed from waddy
Words that rhyme with waddy
Questions about waddy
- What does waddy mean?
- Waddy means a cowboy.
- What is waddy in Tamil?
- Waddy in Tamil is செண்டுத்தடி, ஆஸ்திரேலிய நாட்டுப் படைக்கலக்குறுந்தடி. See Waddy meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is waddy?
- Waddy can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce waddy?
- Waddy is pronounced /ˈwɒdi/.
- What is the plural of waddy?
- The plural of waddy is waddies.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: waddy (page history and authors); Waddy (page history and authors); waddy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); waddy (Urdu Wiktionary) (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.
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