† ˈhoddypeak Obs.
Forms: 6 hody-, hodi-, hodie-, hoddy-, huddi-, -peke, -peeke, -peak(e, -peck.
[f. hoddy (see hoddy-dod) + peak n. or v., but the sense is obscure.]
A fool, simpleton, noodle, blockhead.
| 1500 in Furniv. Ball. fr. MSS. I. 254 Who dwelleth here, wyll no man speke? Is there no fole nor hody-peke? 1549 Latimer 3rd Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 84 What ye brain⁓sycke fooles, ye hoddy peckes, ye doddye poulles, ye huddes, do ye beleue hym? are you seduced also? 1554 Christopherson Exhort. agst. Rebel. (N.), They counte peace to be cause of ydelnes, and that it maketh men hodipekes and cowardes. 1563–87 Foxe A. & M. (1684) II. 547 O most idiot huddipeaks and blockish condemners. 1589 Nashe Anat. Absurd. 13 A Paramour..vnder her husbands, that hoddy⁓peekes nose. |