10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PODDY-DODGER»
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1
The Lingo: Listening to Australian English
The surviving writings or dictations of Ned Kelly, himself an expert and self-
confessed PODDY-DODGER, are excellent repositories of the lingo spoken by
both bushrangers and more respectable country folk during the last half of the
19th ...
2
An Australian Dictionary for North Americans
[poh] A chamber pot. poddy dodger n. Rustling of unbranded calves. poddy calf n
. A hand-fed or fattened calf. po-faced adj. Sour-faced, ugly. point n. In cricket, the
fielding position immediately in front of the batsman, square to the wicket.
Dad, an artful poddy dodger, had a medal from fighting the Japs with the Anzacs
and was good at step-dancing. His repertoire was limited — he knew only a clog
and a jig — and for this reason was known locally as Covey Two Step, which ...
Michael David O'Brien, Michael O'Brien, 1999
'By the way, Ben, a poddy is a calf; I bet you'd like to know what a poddy-dodger
is.' It was almost dark but Ben caught the expression. Annie thought her big
brother's attitude was one big joke. 'I'll hazard a guess, Annie, and say it's just
another ...
Barbara Hartmann King, 2006
5
Slikker the Gold Detective and the case of the Golden Orchid
... practically un-oxidisable pleonaste.........a variety of spinel plumbago........a soft
native carbon (aka graphite, black lead, sagenite) poddy dodger..a colinal term
for a cattle rustler (poddy = young calf: dodge = steal) poppet-head....the frame
set ...
6
The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional ...
192, 1960 poddy-dodge verb to steal unbranded cattle AUSTRALIA, 1919 poddy-
dodger noun a person who steals unbranded cattle AUSTRALIA, 1919 • [Tjhey
are prepared not only to swim but to do other things more intimate with sons of ...
Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, 2006
7
A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
1860—1910. ?ex sense 1. (H., 5th ed.) Cf. podgy, 2. poddy calf. Half-a-crown:
Aus. rhyming s.: earlier C.20. B., 1945. poddy-dodger. The agent' corresponding
to:poddy-dodging. 'The stealing of unbranded calves' (B., 1943): Aus. rural: since
...
8
My Droving Days: Life on the long paddock
Meet the world's worst cattle dog and the station hand, Charlie, who blows a laden outside toilet (and its contents) sky high; thrill to the high drama of a night rush (stampede); catch a poddy dodger in the act and live to tell the tale; ...
Peter Moore, Shirley Moore, 2012
9
The Cattle Dog's Revenge: Bush Ballads and Yarns
And Jim the poddy dodger, learned to love the ocean sand As he faded from the
white man's world in wild Arnhem Land. But Paradise is temporary and trouble
rose again In a stripling known as Nundil — white reared and mission trained.
10
The Outback Vs the Wild West
Ben Martin who came into the Territory with Jim Campbell, the poddy dodger (
Chapter 2 Volume II), was a noted hunter and Campbell himselfsent hides to
Darwin when he was 'in smoke' as an outlaw. Cecil Freer was a legal clerk who
must ...
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You could be a "poddy-dodger" and simply brand cleanskin calves and lead them off their home station on to neutral ground; you could be a ... «The Australian, Dec 12»
