单词 | hoddy-doddy |
释义 | hoddy-doddyn.adj. Obsolete exc. dialect. A. n. Categories » 1. A small shell-snail. dialect. 2. A short and dumpy person: cf. B.Quot. a1953 is perhaps influenced by sense A. 3, noodle, ‘dodderer’. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [noun] > and broadness > person knarc1405 hoddy-doddya1556 trunk1586 truncheon1601 stump1602 fubs1614 dumpling1617 punch1669 Punchinello1669 spud1688 knur1691 knurl1691 runt1699 squab1699 swad1706 humpty-dumpty1785 junt1787 knurlinga1796 pudge1808 stumpie1820 nugget1825 podge1834 dump1840 dumpy1868 pyknic1925 mesomorph1940 a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) i. i. sig. A.ijv Sometime I hang on Hankyn Hoddydodies sleeue. 1702 L'Estrange's Visions of Quevedo Burlesqu'd 76 Some thick and short like Hoddy Doddies. 1723 J. Swift Mary the Cook-maid's Let. 10 A personable man, and not a spindle-shank'd hoddy-doddy. 1877 E. Lear Laughable Lyrics You're such a Hoddy Doddy. a1953 D. Thomas Quite Early One Morning (1954) 64 Exhibitionists,..theological rhetoricians, historical hoddy-doddies, balletomanes,..windbags. 1969 R. J. White Women of Peasen Hall v. 56 Gardiner always refers to him as ‘Dids’, or a ‘Hoddy-doddy’—which is Suffolk for a diminutive person. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > foolish person, fool > fool, simpleton > [noun] boinarda1300 daffc1325 goky1377 nicea1393 unwiseman1400 totc1425 alphinc1440 dawc1500 hoddypeak1500 dawpatea1529 hoddypolla1529 noddy1534 kimec1535 coxcomb1542 sheep1542 sheep's head1542 goose1547 dawcock1556 nodgecock1566 peak-goosea1568 hottie tottie?c1570 Tom Towly1582 wittol1588 goose-cap1589 nodgecomb1592 ninny1593 chicken1600 fopdoodle16.. hoddy-noddy1600 hoddy-doddy1601 peagoose1606 fopster1607 nazold1607 nupson1607 wigeon1607 fondrel1613 simpleton1639 pigwidgeon1640 simpletonian1652 Tony1654 nizy1673 Simple Simon?1673 Tom Farthing1674 totty-head1680 cockcomb1684 cod1699 nikin1699 sap-pate1699 simpkin1699 mackninnya1706 gilly-gaupus?1719 noodle1720 sapskull1735 gobbin?1746 Judy1781 zanya1784 spoony1795 sap-head1798 spoon1799 gomerel1814 sap1815 neddy1818 milestone1819 sunket1823 sunketa1825 gawp1825 gawpy1825 gawpus1826 Tomnoddy1826 Sammy1828 tammie norie1828 Tommy1828 gom1834 noodlehead1835 nowmun1854 gum-sucker1855 flat-head1862 peggy1869 noodledum1883 jay1884 toot1888 peanut head1891 simp1903 sappyhead1922 Arkie1927 putz1928 steamer1932 jerk-off1939 drongo1942 galah1945 Charley1946 nong-nong1959 mouth-breather1979 twonk1981 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > [noun] > adultery > husband of adulterous wife cuckolda1250 cornutoc1430 unicorn1509 hoddypolla1529 summer bird1541 Actaeon1567 knight of the forked order1586 Vulcanian1598 hoddy-doddy1601 becco1604 ram-head1605 cornute1608 horn-stock1611 skimmington1623 horn-heada1640 tup1652 half-moon1659 cuck1706 1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor v. i. sig. K3v You..That make your husband such a hoddy dody . View more context for this quotation 1656 S. Holland Don Zara iii. ii. 162 Where shall I bath this vexed body, Tormented to a Hoddy-Doddy? 4. dialect. (See quot. 1847-78) ΚΠ 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Hoddy-doddy..a revolving light. Devon. B. adj. 1. Short and dumpy or clumsy. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [adjective] > and broad short shoulderedc1405 bunting1584 squaddy1593 chubby1611 truncheon1611 squat1630 squabbish1666 truss1674 squab1675 squad1675 stocky1676 punch1679 trunch1683 squat1688 stub1711 fodgel1724 thick-set1724 puddy1747 chunky1749 dumpy1750 squabby1754 knurly1758 clunch1776 trunchy1778 fubsy1780 punchy1780 humpty-dumpty1785 trunched1787 pudgy1788 fubby1790 runty1807 squattish1809 roly-poly1818 stumpy1822 hoddy-doddy1824 spuddya1825 hodmandod1825 stubby1831 podgy1832 fubsical1834 dumpty1847 fatling1847 stuggy1847 nuggety1856 cloddy1876 blocky1879 chumpy188. cobby1883 squidgy1891 stockish1913 pyknic1925 humpisha1935 1824 S. E. Ferrier Inheritance III. xi. 91 Shoals of hoddy-doddy, white-haired, blubbered boys and girls. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 329 Hoddy-Doddy, disproportionably stout. A short, lusty, squat looking person is said to be ‘all hoddy-doddy’... With us it is restricted to females. 2. dialect. Confused, in a whirl. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > confusion, muddle-headedness > [adjective] redelessOE mopishc1300 tottedc1500 addle1534 muddy?1571 addle1576 foggya1591 foggy-brained1594 addled1599 addle-headed1600 bezzled1604 addle-pated1614 addle-brained1619 buzzle-headeda1644 puzzle-headed1729 puzzle-pated1736 muddle-headed1760 ramble-headeda1761 hulver-headed1785 ramfeezled1786 muddled1790 hoddy-doddya1798 muzzy-headed1798 bother-headed1820 muddle-pated1823 pixilated1848 woolly1864 bungle-headed1865 mixed1880 muddlesome1887 wifty1918 woozy1941 spastic1981 a1798 J. Palmer Like Master like Man (1811) I. 159 I gets up, all hoddy-doddy, and goes out to see what were matter. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.adj.a1556 |
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