waddy

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A cowboy. colloquial
    — This is how it was with the old waddies, aint it?
  2. A club or heavy stick used by Aboriginal Australians for fighting and hunting; 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. A piece of wood; a stick or peg; also, a walking stick. Australia
动词 v.
  1. To strike or beat with a waddy. Australia,transitive

词形变化

waddies plural waddies plural waddie alternative waddies present,singular,third-person waddying participle,present waddied participle,past waddied past waddie alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
waddywood

词源

词源 1
Unknown.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Dharug wadibor.
English waddy
Borrowed from Dharug wadi (“stick, weapon”).
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