† doddypoll Obs.
(ˈdɒdɪpəʊl)
Forms: α. 5 dotty-, doty-, dote-, 6 doti-, dotti-, -pol(e, -poll(e. β. 6 dody-, doddye-, 6–7 dodi-, 7–8 doddy-, doddi-, -pole, -poll, etc.
[app. originally f. dote v. to be foolish or silly, subseq. referred to dod v.1, as if ‘having a dodded poll’: cf. roundhead.]
A stupid person; blockhead, fool.
| 1401 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 99 Ȝit, Dawe Dotypolle, thou justifiest this harlotrie. c 1422 Hoccleve Min. Poems, Jonathas 49 A lewde dotepol, straw for his wit! c 1460 Towneley Myst. (Surtees) 145 Fy, dotty-pols, with youre bookes. 1549 Latimer 3rd Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 84 What ye brain-sycke fooles, ye hoddy peckes, ye doddye poulles!..are you seduced also? 1581 J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 29 b, No man..besides this Doctour Dottipoll. a 1652 Brome Eng. Moor ii. i. Wks. 1873 II. 18 All the Doddy-poles in Town. 1767 Sterne Tr. Shandy IX. xxv, Shall I be called as many blockheads, numsculls, doddy⁓poles, dunderheads. |
Hence † ˈdoddy-polled a. Obs.
| 1708 Motteux Rabelais v. xlvi, Thou doddipol'd Ninny. |