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hodmandod
hodmandod, n. (a.) (ˈhɒdmənˌdɒd) [A reduplicated variation of dodman, hoddy-dod; app. influenced in form by hodman: it has the dial. variants hodmadod, hodmedod, hodman Hob, hodmandon.] 1. A shell-snail, a dodman.1626 Bacon Sylva §732 The Crab, the Crafish, the Hodmandod or Dodman, the Tortoise. a 1...
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hoddidod
† hoddy-dod, hoddidod Obs. [The element dod is evidently the same as in dodman a shell-snail; hoddy-dod, hoddy-doddy, hodman-dod, are perhaps in origin nursery reduplications; but the element hoddy- appears itself to have come to be associated with or to mean ‘snail’ (or ? horned), as in several wor...
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hoddypeak
† 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 ...
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