"hoddydoddy" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: hoddydoddies [plural]
Etymology: From hoddy-dod, an obsolete English regionalism meaning “periwinkle” or “snail”. Compare dodman. Head templates: {{en-noun}} hoddydoddy (plural hoddydoddies)
  1. (obsolete) An awkward or foolish person. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-hoddydoddy-en-noun-I3r6OFPO
  2. (obsolete, England) A snail; a snail’s shell. Tags: England, obsolete Categories (lifeform): Snails
    Sense id: en-hoddydoddy-en-noun-DetjcG3- Disambiguation of Snails: 3 97 Categories (other): English English, English entries with incorrect language header, English links with manual fragments, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 89 Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 16 84 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 5 95 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 4 96

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1598, Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour, act IV, scene viii:",
          "text": "Well, good wife bawd, Cob’s wife, and you / That make your husband such a hoddy-doddy ; / And you, young apple-squire, and old cuckold-maker",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1600, William Kempe, Kemps nine daies vvonder:",
          "text": "Name my accuſer ſaith he, or I defye thee Kemp at the quart ſtaffe. I told him, & all his anger turned to laughter: ſwearing it did him good to haue ill words of a hoddy doddy, a habber de hoy, a chicken, a ſquib, a ſquall: […]",
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        }
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        "An awkward or foolish person."
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        "(obsolete) An awkward or foolish person."
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          "_dis": "11 89",
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          "_dis": "16 84",
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          "_dis": "4 96",
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          "_dis": "3 97",
          "kind": "lifeform",
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          "name": "Snails",
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          "ref": "1899, W.T. Fernie, Animal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure, page 448:",
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        "A snail; a snail’s shell."
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        "(obsolete, England) A snail; a snail’s shell."
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hoddydoddies",
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        "plural"
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1598, Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour, act IV, scene viii:",
          "text": "Well, good wife bawd, Cob’s wife, and you / That make your husband such a hoddy-doddy ; / And you, young apple-squire, and old cuckold-maker",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1600, William Kempe, Kemps nine daies vvonder:",
          "text": "Name my accuſer ſaith he, or I defye thee Kemp at the quart ſtaffe. I told him, & all his anger turned to laughter: ſwearing it did him good to haue ill words of a hoddy doddy, a habber de hoy, a chicken, a ſquib, a ſquall: […]",
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        "(obsolete) An awkward or foolish person."
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