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Waddy

//ˈwɒdi// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A cowboy. colloquial

    "This is how it was with the old waddies, aint it?"

  2. 2
    A war club used by Aboriginal Australians; a nulla nulla. Australia

    "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."

  3. 3
    A piece of wood; a stick or peg; also, a walking stick. Australia
Verb
  1. 1
    To attack or beat with an Aboriginal war club. Australia, transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

Unknown.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Dharug wadi (“stick, weapon”).

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Dharug wadi (“stick, weapon”).

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