† ˈhawdod dial. Obs.
[app. f. haw a. blue + dod n.2]
A name for the Blue Cornflower, Centaurea Cyanus (Britten and Holland).
| 1523 Fitzherb. Husb. §20 Diuers maner of wedes, as thistyls, kedlokes, dockes..gouldes, haudoddes, dogfennel. Ibid., Hawdod hath a blewe floure, and a fewe lyttell leues..and groweth comonly in rye vpon leane grounde, and dothe lyttel hurte. 1730 in Yorks. Diaries (Surtees) 296 (Brit. & Hol.) A flower call'd hawdods. |