hoddy-peak
hoddy-peak noun: a fool, person of low intelligence.
Noun
hoddy-peak (plural hoddy-peaks)
- A fool, person of low intelligence.
- He sayeth ‘Thou huddy-peke! / Thy learnyng is too lewd, / Thy tongue is not well thewed, / To seek before our grace.’1527, John Skelton, Womanhood, Wanton, Ye Want!
- Then answered the Pharisees, Num et vos seducti estis? "What, ye brain-sick fools, ye hoddy-pecks, ye doddy-pouls, ye huddes, do ye believe him? are you seduced also?[…]"1549 March 22, Hugh Latimer, “The Third Sermon of M. Hugh Latimer, preached before King Edward”, in Project Canterbury, Sermons by Hugh Latimer
- A cuckold, a married man whose wife is unfaithful.
- But women, through want of wisdom, are grown to such wantonness that upon no occasion they will cross the street to have a glance of some gallant,[…] who, under her husband's (that hoddypeak's) nose must have all the distilling dew of his delicate rose, leaving him only a sweet scent, good enough...1589, Thomas Nashe, The Anatomy of Absurdity (PDF)
Synonyms of hoddy-peak
Forms of hoddy-peak
| plural | hoddy-peaks |
|---|---|
| alternative form | hoddy peak |
| alternative form | hoddypeak |
| alternative form | huddipeak |
| alternative form | huddy-peke |
Origin of hoddy-peak
From hoddydoddy + dialectal peak (“head”).
Questions about hoddy-peak
- What does hoddy-peak mean?
- Hoddy-peak means a fool, person of low intelligence.
- What part of speech is hoddy-peak?
- Hoddy-peak is a noun.
- What is the plural of hoddy-peak?
- The plural of hoddy-peak is hoddy-peaks.
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