hoddy-noddy rare.
[Reduplicated from noddy.]
A fool, simpleton, noodle.
| 1600 O. E. Reply to Libel i. vii. 181 If this hoddy Noddy thinke otherwise, let him..bring foorth his proofes. 1951 Dylan Thomas Let. 12 Apr. (1966) 356 No more of that beer-cheapened hoddy-noddy. 1970 ‘M. Hebden’ Mask of Violence (1971) xx. 183 They were..no end considerate. Shoved everybody out of the way. Damn near a punch-up with one lot of beer-cheapened hoddy-noddy. |