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† doddypoll Obs.|ˈdɒdɪpəʊl|
Forms: α. 5 dotty-, doty-, dote-, 6 doti-, dotti-, -pol(e, -poll(e. β. 6 dody-, doddye-, 6–7 dodi-, 7–8 doddy-, doddi-, -pole, -poll, etc.
[app. originally f. dote v. to be foolish or silly, subseq. referred to dod v.1, as if ‘having a dodded poll’: cf. roundhead.]
A stupid person; blockhead, fool.
1401Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 99 Ȝit, Dawe Dotypolle, thou justifiest this harlotrie. c1422Hoccleve Min. Poems, Jonathas 49 A lewde dotepol, straw for his wit! c1460Towneley Myst. (Surtees) 145 Fy, dotty-pols, with youre bookes. 1549Latimer 3rd Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 84 What ye brain-sycke fooles, ye hoddy peckes, ye doddye poulles!..are you seduced also? 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 29 b, No man..besides this Doctour Dottipoll. a1652Brome Eng. Moor ii. i. Wks. 1873 II. 18 All the Doddy-poles in Town. 1767Sterne Tr. Shandy IX. xxv, Shall I be called as many blockheads, numsculls, doddy⁓poles, dunderheads.
Hence † ˈdoddy-polled a. Obs.
1708Motteux Rabelais v. xlvi, Thou doddipol'd Ninny. |