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ˈcurldoddy Sc.
Also curly-doddy.
[f. curl or curly + doddy, that which has a rounded head.]
A popular name of various plants with rounded flower heads: a. of species of Wild Scabious; b. of species of trefoil or clover, esp. Trifolium medium; c. of the Ribwort Plantain (Plantago lanceolata); d. of curled cabbage (Jamieson).
1500–20Dunbar In Secreit Place 297 Quod he, ‘My claver, and my curldodie’. 15..Interl. laying of Gaist in Scott Border Minstr. (1810) I. p. clx, With thre heidis of curle doddy. 1806P. Neill Tour Orkn. & Shetl. 41 (Jam.) Trifolium medium..known in Orkney and in various parts of Scotland by the whimsical name of Red Curldoddy; and Trifolium repens, called White Curldoddy. 1847in R. Chambers Pop. Rhymes Scotl. (ed. 3) 204 Children thus address the stalk and flower of the scabious or devil's-bit..‘Curly doddy, do my biddin', Soop my house, and shool my midden'’. |