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hoddy-doddy
hoddy-doddy, n. and a. Obs. exc. dial. [See prec. (In sense 3, with reference to the ‘horns’ of a cuckold; cf. sense 1.)] A. n. 1. A small shell-snail. dial. 2. A short and dumpy person: cf. B. Quot. a 1953 is perh. influenced by sense 3, noodle, ‘dodderer’.a 1553 Udall Royster D. i. i. (Arb.) 11 So... Oxford English Dictionary
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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... Oxford English Dictionary
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Jack Kent (illustrator)
Book 1981 Little Peep 1981 The Biggest Shadow in the Zoo 1981 The Scribble Monster 1980 Knee High Nina 1979 Floyd, the Tinniest Elephant 1979 Hoddy Doddy (collecting three stories: "The Lobsters", "The Clock", and "The Patriot") 1979 Jack Kent's Hokus Pokus Bedtime Book 1978 Socks For Supper 1978 wikipedia.org
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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... Oxford English Dictionary
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dodman
ˈdodman Now dial. [Origin unknown: connexion with dod n.3 has been suggested. Other local names are hodman-dod, hoddy-doddy.] A snail.c 1550 Bale K. Johan (Camden) 7 Yt is as great pyte to se a woman wepe, As yt is to se a sely dodman creepe. 1625 Lisle Du Bartas, Noe 149 Two crooked lines, One like... Oxford English Dictionary
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hottie-tottie
† hottie-tottie Obs. Variant of hoddy-doddy.c 1580 J. Jeffere Bugbears iii. ii. in Archiv Stud. Neu. Spr. (1897), Though the hottie-tottie be old, yet he wooeth a yoong wyfe. Oxford English Dictionary
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When did chicken become a synonym of cowardice? Chicken is often used to mean someone is a coward. This is exemplified in the game of chicken). When did chicken first become a synonym of cowardice?
Kemp Nine Days’ Wonder: It did him good to have ill words of a hoddy doddy! a hebber de hoy!, a chicken! a squib.
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