Hoddydoddy
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Hoddydoddy is a noun meaning (obsolete) An awkward or foolish person.
Meaning
(obsolete) An awkward or foolish person.
More Meanings
- (obsolete, England) A snail; a snail’s shell.
Example Sentences
A River snail in Oxfordshire is “Hoddy-doddy”; in Northamptonshire the Wall snail is “Packman snail.”
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: […]
Word Forms
- hoddydoddies
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hoddy-dod, hoddy-peak, hobbledehoy, clodhopper, fuddyduddy, fuddy-duddy.
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