Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

quaddie

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: quad-die
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A quadrella, a type of bet requiring the bettor to pick the winners of four nominated races at the same track; a bet requiring the selection of four winners of specified matches in a given round of a sporting competition.

Australian usage; Colloquial

Example Sentences

"2003 March 22, Craig Sherborne, Footy′s Man of Passion, The Herald Sun, republished in 2003, Garrie Hutchinson (editor), The Best Australian Sports Writing 2003, page 82, He was a footballer, hard-boned, smart-mouthed, with an eye on the quaddie at Flemington."
"I had the quaddie in Melbourne if Alinghi won."
"2006, Mike Dillon, From The Horses Mouth: The Keith Haub Story, 2010, HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand), unnumbered page, With only the last race to run the trio each had a $1 quaddie unit if Brent Thomson managed to get over the line in front."
"For the Fourth week in a row I have had 3 live legs of the Quaddie only to be dudded by West Coast the last two!"

Etymology

From quadrella + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

Word Breakdown

Suffix: quadrella

Usage

Inflected Forms

quaddies (plural)

Synonyms

quadrella

Questions

What does quaddie mean?: A quadrella, a type of bet requiring the bettor to pick the winners of four nominated races at the same track; a bet requiring the selection of four winners of specified matches in a given round of a sporting competition.
Where does quaddie come from?: From quadrella + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

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