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单词 hoddy-doddy
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hoddy-doddyn.adj.

Etymology: See hoddy-dod n. (In sense A. 3, with reference to the ‘horns’ of a cuckold; compare sense A. 1.)
Obsolete exc. dialect.
A. n.
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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.
3. A cuckold; a hen-pecked man; a noodle; a simpleton. Obsolete.
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).
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