hoddydoddy
nounEtymology
From hoddy-dod, an obsolete English regionalism meaning “periwinkle” or “snail”. Compare dodman.
- derived from regionalism meaning “periwinkle” or “snail”
Definitions
An awkward or foolish person.
- Well, good wife bawd, Cob’s wife, and you / That make your husband such a hoddy-doddy ; / And you, young apple-squire, and old cuckold-maker
- Name my accuſer ſaith he, or I defye thee Kemp at the quart ſtaffe. I told him, & all his anger turned to laughter: ſwearing it did him good to haue ill words of a hoddy doddy, a habber de hoy, a chicken, a ſquib, a ſquall: […]
A snail
A snail; a snail’s shell.
- A River snail in Oxfordshire is “Hoddy-doddy”; in Northamptonshire the Wall snail is “Packman snail.”
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA