poddy

n. <澳>人工喂养的幼畜(如小牛、小羊等)

发音

AU

词形变化

poddies 复数 poddies poddies 三单 poddying 现在分词 poddied 过去式 poddied 过去分词 poddier 比较级 poddier poddiest poddiest 最高级

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An unbranded calf.

    澳大利亚
  2. 2.

    A hand-fed calf or lamb (a young animal needing milk or milk-substitute).

    澳大利亚
  3. 3.

    An immature mullet.

    澳大利亚
v.
  1. 1.

    To hand-feed (a young animal).

    澳大利亚

    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.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Of 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. 2.

    Fat, corpulent.

  3. 3.

    Fed by hand.

    澳大利亚

    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.

词源

From pod + -y.

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