waddy

noun

1. (colloquial)A cowboy.

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

   “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.”

2. (Australia)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.”

   “1840 May—August, Robert Montgomery Martin (editor), Van Diemen's Land, The Colonial Magazine and Commercial-maritime Journal, Volume 2, page 76, 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.”

   “And in a free fight, the waddy, like an Irishman's shillaly, figures very prominently.”

   “As I ran I glanced over my shoulder & saw the blackfellas beating Capois Death hard with their waddies, & they seemed to be trying to break the bones in each of his limbs.”

   “The kids would copy the men to make their own cricket stumps, but no-one was allowed to touch Grandfather's special wood for making waddies.”

3. (Australia)A piece of wood; a stick or peg; also, a walking stick.

verb

1. (Australia, transitive)To strike or beat with a waddy.

name

1. A surname.