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hoddy-peak

noun

Etymology

From hoddydoddy + dialectal peak (“head”).

Definitions

  1. A fool, person of low intelligence.

    • He sayeth ‘Thou huddy-peke! / Thy learnyng is too lewd, / Thy tongue is not well thewed, / To seek before our grace.’
    • Then answered the Pharisees, Num et vos seducti estis? "What, ye brain-sick fools, ye hoddy-pecks, ye doddy-pouls, ye huddes, do ye believe him? are you seduced also?[…]"

  2. A cuckold, a married man whose wife is unfaithful.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA