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hoddy peak

hoddy peak is the alternative form of hoddy-peak.

Meaning of hoddy-peak

Noun

hoddy-peak (plural hoddy-peaks)

  1. (obsolete) 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!
  2. (obsolete) 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)

Forms of hoddy peak

pluralhoddy peaks

Questions about hoddy peak

What is hoddy peak the alternative form of?
Hoddy peak is the alternative form of hoddy-peak.

Words near hoddy peak in the dictionary

  1. hoddles
  2. Hoddles Creek
  3. hoddling
  4. hodduk
  5. hodduks
  6. hoddy peak
  7. hoddy peaks
  8. hoddy-dod
  9. hoddy-doddy
  10. hoddy-dods
  11. hoddy-peak

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