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hoddy-doddy

hoddy-doddy is the alternative form of hoddydoddy.

Meaning of hoddydoddy

Noun

hoddydoddy (plural hoddydoddies)

  1. (obsolete) An awkward or foolish person.
    • Well, good wife bawd, Cob’s wife, and you / That make your husband such a hoddy-doddy; / And you, young apple-squire, and old cuckold-maker1598, Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour, act IV, scene viii
  2. (England, obsolete) A snail or its shell.
    • A River snail in Oxfordshire is “Hoddy-doddy”; in Northamptonshire the Wall snail is “Packman snail.”1899, W.T. Fernie, Animal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure, page 448

Forms of hoddy-doddy

pluralhoddy-doddies

Questions about hoddy-doddy

What is hoddy-doddy the alternative form of?
Hoddy-doddy is the alternative form of hoddydoddy.

Words near hoddy-doddy in the dictionary

  1. hodduk
  2. hodduks
  3. hoddy peak
  4. hoddy peaks
  5. hoddy-dod
  6. hoddy-doddy
  7. hoddy-dods
  8. hoddy-peak
  9. hoddy-peaks
  10. hoddydoddies
  11. hoddydoddy

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