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hoddydoddies

hoddydoddies is the plural 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

Questions about hoddydoddies

What is hoddydoddies the plural of?
Hoddydoddies is the plural of hoddydoddy.

Words near hoddydoddies in the dictionary

  1. hoddy-dod
  2. hoddy-doddy
  3. hoddy-dods
  4. hoddy-peak
  5. hoddy-peaks
  6. hoddydoddies
  7. hoddydoddy
  8. hode
  9. hodegetria
  10. hodegetrias
  11. Hodeidah

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