The Collaborative International Dictionary
Waddy \Wad"dy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Waddied; p. pr. & vb. n. Waddying.] To attack or beat with a waddy.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context colloquial English) A cowboy. Etymology 2
alt. 1 (context Australia English) A war club used by Aboriginal Australians; a nulla null
2 A piece of wood; a stick or peg; also, a walking stick. n. 1 (context Australia English) A war club used by Aboriginal Australians; a nulla nulla. 2 A piece of wood; a stick or peg; also, a walking stick. v
(cx transitive English) To attack or beat with an Aboriginal war club.
Wikipedia
A waddy, nulla nulla or hunting stick is an Australian Aboriginal war club. The first of these names comes from the Dharuk Aborigines of Port Jackson, Sydney.
A waddy is a heavy club constructed of carved timber. Waddies have been used in hand-to-hand combat, and were capable of splitting a shield, and killing or stunning prey. In addition to this they could be employed as a projectile as well as used to make fire and make ochre. They found further use in punishing those who broke Aboriginal law.
They were made by both men and women and could be painted or left unpainted. Their construction varied from tribe to tribe, but they were generally about one metre in length and sometimes had a stone head attached with bees wax and string. They were made from where a branch met the tree, or from a young tree pulled up with its roots from the ground.
Waddy has also been spelled as wadi, wady, and waddie. The spelling stabilised around the mid-nineteenth century, partly to help distinguish it from the Arabic word wadi, a dry water course.
A waddy is an Australian Aboriginal war club.
Waddy may also refer to:
- Acacia peuce, the Australian tree
- Waddy (surname)
- Waddy, Kentucky, an unincorporated community within Shelby County
- Waddy House, a historic home in Maryland
- Waddy Wachtel, an American musician, composer and record producer
Waddy is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Billy Waddy
- John Waddy (disambiguation)
- John Lloyd Waddy
- Jude Waddy
- Ray Waddy
- Samuel Danks Waddy
- Stack Waddy
Usage examples of "waddy".
She seemed to like me middling tolerable, but I had rivals, notably a snub-nosed Arizona waddy by the name of Bizz Ridgeway.
They were headed by the old woman and the conjuror, who held waddies in their hands, which they brandished with frightful contortions.
Jerry, who was struggling with the natives, and fighting with his fists against their waddies, with which they were beating him.
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.
Sahara still sowed quick-sprouting seed in those draws they called something like waddies in their own lingo.
And come to study on it, what else might he have wanted with two dumb but dishonest gun waddies on his payroll?
But recruiting all those dumb but dishonest gun waddies would have made no sense if he was up to his usual flimflams.
He was now more convinced that both gun waddies had been after him in particular, meaning poor Gaylord Stanwyk had been mistaken for him at the depot the day before.
Rocking T waddies running around taking potshots at us, acting like you owned the whole goddam country.
A Native Encampment--Conference with Musqueeto--A Savage has a Soul--The lost Child recovered--How to Catch an Opossum--A Kangaroo Hunt by the Natives--The Apparition of Spears and Waddies excites disagreeable Suspicions.
Their heads were battered to a jelly-like mass, from the frequent blows of the waddies, a small and light club of hard wood, which forms the weapon of the natives of Australia in close combat.
The waddies were of no use against the broad-swords of horsemen, and their slight spears were not strong enough to serve as pikes, so that they were completely at the mercy of the sabres.
I was defenceless after the discharge of my gun, they came on swiftly, boldly brandishing their waddies in the air, with the intent of shortly exercising them on my unfortunate skull.
Their only weapons are the spear and the waddy, and the crescent-shaped womera which they hurl at their enemies in battle, and at the kangaroo in hunting.
It was one thing to have a go at faceless bastards in uniform, but quite another to throw stones at old Fred Colon or old Waddy or old Billy Wiglet, who you'd known since you were two years old and played Dead Rat Conkers with in the gutter.