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From pod +‎ -y.

poddy (comparative poddier, superlative poddiest)

(not comparable) 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.
Fat, corpulent.
(not comparable, Australia, of a young or orphaned animal) Fed by hand.
- 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.
- 2008, Barry Heard, The View from Connor′s Hill, page 56:
  The first really positive change came about when Mum arrived home with a poddy lamb.

poddy (plural poddies)

(Australia) An unbranded calf.
(Australia) A hand-fed calf or lamb (a young animal needing milk or milk-substitute).
- 1904, Bush Courtin′: Australian Ballads & Short Stories, Penguin, published 2003, page 268:
  When the milkin′ music′s ended, and the big cans stacked away, / An′ the poddies have done drinkin′, an′ the neddies chew their hay
- 2011, Ali Lewis, Everybody Jam, unnumbered page:
  She said I had to show Liz how to feed the poddies, the pigs and Buzz.
(Australia, Victoria) An immature mullet.

A poddy calf is always a hand-fed one.

poddy (third-person singular simple present poddies, present participle poddying, simple past and past participle poddied)

(Australia) To 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.