† loddyn.
slang. Obsolete.
= laudanum n. 1.
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1811 L.-M. Hawkins Countess & Gertrude I. i. 7 There are hair-dressers and laundresses in London, who cannot begin their work without twopennyworth of what they call Loddy.
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