1890 Act (State of Victoria) 54 Vict. No. 1093. Sched. 2 Sand-mullet or poddies.

1941 Bulletin (Sydney) 29 Oct. 14/1 We caught two pickle-jar full o' poddy mullet.

1977 Commerc. Fish Austral. (Dept. Primary Industry) 50 Sea mullet, also known as poddy or grey mullet, are distributed worldwide.

2005 Sunday Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 17 Apr. 90 Jason Newby reports huge flathead falling to live poddy mullet in Swansea channel.

1756 R. Mead Treat. Small-pox 18 The late eminent Dr. Friend has made an addition of what he calls the siliquose, or poddy kind, where the pustules, destitute of all manner of moisture, exhibit an appearance of certain round, soft, and hollow bladders.

1903 A. Bierce Shapes of Clay in Coll. Wks. (1909) 303 He marked each ‘belted cruiser’ fine, Her poddy life-belts floating In tether.

1954 E. St. Vincent Millay Coll. Poems (1956) 555 The brisk Rattle of shot he is not slow to tell From the sound of ripe seed bursting from a poddy shell.

2000 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 13 Dec. 13 A little cup of superb pea soup served cappuccino style which had real depth of crunchy, poddy flavour.

1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 285 I am 'a gitten kienda poddy.

1844 E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 138 It is a grievous thing to grow poddy: the age of Chivalry is gone then.

1884 Saturday Herald (Decatur) 2/1 This latter manner of feeding [sc. stuffing or gorging] will destroy the appetite or produce an inflated or poddy condition [in pigs].

a1902 F. Norris Vandover (1914) 215 He..had allowed the brute to thrive and to grow,..growing larger day by day, noisome, swollen, poddy.

1978 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 22 July 4/8 Don't feel any different at all really, except I am getting a little poddy around the middle.

1898 Bulletin (Sydney) 8 Jan. (Red Page) A poddy calf or foal is heard all over Australia.

1906 N.Z. Truth 13 Oct. 7 One day he got a telegram from his dear, forgiving old dad to come home and eat of the fatted poddie calf.

1911 E. M. Clowes On Wallaby iii. 66 He drives off with the separated milk—due from the day before for his poddy-calves.

1930 V. Palmer Men are Human xxv. 235 He's tame as a poddy calf.

1991 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 10 Nov. 4/2 Hand-fed (or poddy) lambs, as most farmers know, can get a bit scatty.

1872 A. McFarland Illawarra & Manaro 76 Three or four ‘selections’, good for wheat, ‘poddies’, and snipe.

1893 K. Mackay Out Back (ed. 2) i. v. 75 I did occasionally put my brand by mistake on one of Massey's ‘poddies’.

1907 ‘G. B. Lancaster’ Tracks we Tread iii. 52 [The wild cattle] were a mixed haul: two-year-olds, poddies and pikers.

1950 ‘N. Shute’ Town like Alice 263 A poddy's a cleanskin, a calf born since the last muster that hasn't been branded.

2005 Canberra Times (Nexis) 16 Feb. a2 A neighbour might decide you've been a bit slack branding your cattle. He might fancy a young calf, a ‘poddy’, and..put his own brand on it.

1872 A. McFarland Illawarra & Manaro 76 Three or four ‘selections’, good for wheat, ‘poddies’, and snipe.

1901 M. Franklin My Brilliant Career v. 24 It was my duty to ‘rare the poddies’.

1908 Bulletin (Sydney) 30 Jan. 14 I saw a boy..driving back to pasture his flock of sixty or seventy newly shorn ‘poddies’, and it reminded me that the ewe is about the most indifferent mother in the bush.

1927 B. Cronin Red Dawson xliii. 194 His whole outfit was five old cows and a coupler poddies.

1944 R. F. Adams Western Words 117 Poddy, an occasional name for an orphan calf, usually big-bellied and undernourished.

1983 M. Hayes Prickle Farm 80 A little one-eyed ewe, who'd obviously been someone's poddy and considered herself a little above the common throng of paddock sheep.

1901 M. Franklin My Brilliant Career iii. 17 They do all the milkin' and pig-feedin', and poddy-rarin'.

1941 Coast to Coast 108 Tug Treloar carrying buckets of poddy swill.

1919 Smith's Weekly (Sydney) 26 Apr. 19/4 The luck of the poddy-dodgers in these parts is right out just now.

1934 Bulletin (Sydney) 1 Aug. 46/3 Nine poddy-dodgers out of ten gets caught the same way.

1970 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 30 Aug. 3/5 His practice, as a ‘poddy~dodger’, was to steal branded cows and cleanskin calves from neighbours, then remove the calves from their mothers before they were ready.

1994 Fast Forward 26 Oct. 15 I really wish something terrible would happen to the cheating little poddy dodger.

1919 Bulletin (Sydney) 25 Sept. 22/3 Owing to the rise in price of cattle and the difficulty stations have in branding-up, ‘poddy-dodging’ has become an established trade about Cloncurry (Q.).

1957 R. S. Porteous Brigalow 61 Mick did a bit of poddy-dodging when things were slack... He might lift a few head of cleanskins now and then.

2003 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 6 Sept. (Features) 24 The free settler had scant reason to consider himself a cut above the emancipated convict, especially when so little stood between him and a conviction for poddy-dodging.

1896 H. Lawson While Billy Boils 61 Then he ‘poddies’—hand-feeds—the calves which have been weaned too early.

1908 Bulletin (Sydney) 30 Jan. 14 The squatter knows that a deserted lamb will die, also he has no time to ‘poddy’ it.

1931 V. Palmer Separate Lives 176 When her [sc. the filly's] mother died, that old drover said I could have her... And I did rear her, bought condensed milk to poddy her for months.

1964 K. Tennant Summer's Tales 95 Lots of blokes gave him calves to poddy, when a cow they were taking on the road dropped one.

1992 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 2 Nov. Macdougal had been orphaned at birth and poddied by Trelawney stud groom Miss Peggy Macdougal.