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Cattle raiding is the act of stealing live cattle, often several or many at once. In Australia, such stealing is often referred to as duffing, and the perpetrator as a duffer.[1][2] In other areas, especially in Queensland, the practice is known as poddy-dodging with the perpetrator known as a poddy-dodger.[3] In North America, especially in the Wild West cowboy culture, cattle theft is dubbed rustling, while an individual who engages in it is a rustler.[4]
- ^ Baker, Sidney John (1945) The Australian language : an examination of the English language and English speech as used in Australia Angus and Robertson, Ltd., Sydney, p. 32, OCLC 186257552
- ^ Derricourt, William (1899) Old Convict Days (2nd ed.) T.F. Unwin, London, p. 103 OCLC 5990998
- ^ Anderson, John (19 June 2018). "Poddy-Dodger Festival celebrates Croydon's cattle-stealing fame". Townsville Bulletin. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
- ^ "rustler". Wiktionary, The Free Dictionary. Retrieved 6 September 2016.