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daddock

UK/ˈdædək/

daddock noun: the rotten body of a tree.

Noun

daddock (plural daddocks)

  1. (UK, dialectal) The rotten body of a tree.
    • We crushed the flowers to dust again, And leaped the daddock pile, And hunted, with a careless rein, The foe in savage style.1866, Isaac B. Rich, Gazelle: A True Tale of the Great Rebellion, and Other Poems, page 137
    • and you have not enough Of fairness left to tempt a truant hand To pluck you from the daddock in the clough, And give your spirit to the summer land1873, London Society

Examples of daddock in a sentence

  • The partridge drums upon the hill, a daddock old and battered, While, now and then, an oriole lights up a scarlet gleam.1890, Emma Rood Tuttle, From Soul to Soul, page 198:
  • Delicate sensitiveness will turn away in fear and disgust as some mouldering daddock is removed, and lizards, sloes, darting beetles, and plodding snails are dazed by the light.1892, Hudson Tuttle, The Convent of the Sacred Heart, page 4:
  • Christendom's favouring renegades was of the greatest service to the Hebrew race, for it helped Judaism to despumate her ills and diseases; every tree has its daddock.1898, Gustav Pearlson, Twelve Centuries of Jewish Persecution, page 234:

Forms of daddock

pluraldaddocks

Origin of daddock

Compare dialectal English dad (“large piece”), and see -ock.

Words formed from daddock

Questions about daddock

What does daddock mean?
Daddock means the rotten body of a tree.
How do you use daddock in a sentence?
The partridge drums upon the hill, a daddock old and battered, While, now and then, an oriole lights up a scarlet gleam.
What part of speech is daddock?
Daddock is a noun.
How do you pronounce daddock?
Daddock is pronounced /ˈdædək/ (UK).
What is the plural of daddock?
The plural of daddock is daddocks.

Words near daddock in the dictionary

  1. daddishness
  2. daddle
  3. daddled
  4. daddles
  5. daddling
  6. daddock
  7. daddocks
  8. daddocky
  9. Daddona
  10. Daddonas
  11. Dadds

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