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daddock dial.|ˈdædək|
Also 7 dadocke.
[Stem dad- of uncertain etymology; but cf. dodder: the suffix appears to be dim. -ock, as in bullock, hillock.]
Rotten or decayed wood; also † daddock-wood.
a1624Bp. M. Smith Serm. (1632) 106 How long would it be before you could..make mortar of sand, or make a piece of dadocke-wood to flame? 1674Blount Glossogr. (ed. 4), Daddock, when the heart or body of a Tree is throughly rotten, it is called Daddock, quasi, dead Oak. 1787Grose Prov. Gloss., Daddock, rotten wood, touch-wood. Glouc. 1845S. Judd Margaret ii. i, The great red daddocks lay in the green pastures where they had lain year after year, crumbling away. 1884Upton-on-Severn Gloss., Daddock, decayed wood, touchwood.
Hence ˈdaddocky a., decayed, rotten.
1825Britton Beaut. Wiltshire, Daddicky, dry, decayed. 1884Upton-on-Severn Gloss., Daddocky, flimsy, unsubstantial, soft with decay. |