poddy

comparative poddier · superlative poddiest

1. not comparableOf or pertaining to a pod or pods.

   1944, New Mexico State University Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin of the Agricultural Experiment Station, New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Issues 318-329, page 88, […] the second cutting each season was allowed to become poddy, i.e., to set seed pods.

2. Fat, corpulent.
3. Australianot comparableFed by hand.

   The first really positive change came about when Mum arrived home with a poddy lamb.

   2008, Barry Heard, The View from Connor′s Hill, page 56

   2 more examples

   One of my half-starved poddy calves was very ill, and I went out to doctor it previous to bathing and tidying myself for my finishing household duties.

   1901, Miles Franklin, “The 3rd of December 1898”, in My Brilliant Career, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 292

   1964, New South Wales Department of Agriculture, The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, Volume 74, page 646, Constant handling will cause mis-mothering, leading to deaths and a number of poddy lambs. Poddy lambs are slow to grow and often fail to reach marketable weight under eight months of age.

plural poddies

1. AustraliaAn unbranded calf.
2. AustraliaA hand-fed calf or lamb (a young animal needing milk or milk-substitute).

   She said I had to show Liz how to feed the poddies, the pigs and Buzz.

   2011, Ali Lewis, Everybody Jam, unnumbered page

   2 more examples

   I did not turn to ascertain who it might be, but trusted it was no one of importance, as the poddy and I presented rather a grotesque appearance.

   1901, Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career, page 207

   When the milkin′ music′s ended, and the big cans stacked away, / An′ the poddies have done drinkin′, an′ the neddies chew their hay

   1904, Bush Courtin′: Australian Ballads & Short Stories, Penguin, published 2003, page 268

3. AustraliaVictoriaAn immature mullet.

present singular third person poddies · participle present poddying · participle past poddied · past poddied

1. AustraliaTo hand-feed (a young animal).

   1907, Barbara Baynton, Human Toll, 2007, Echo Library, page 110, ‘Ell ov a trouble t′ poddy, miss, them lambs, but Queeby used t′ poddy any Gord′s quantity’ remarked Nungi.