"daddock" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈdædək/ [UK] Forms: daddocks [plural]
Etymology: Compare dialectal English dad (“large piece”), and see -ock. Etymology templates: {{m|en|dad||large piece}} dad (“large piece”), {{m|en|-ock}} -ock Head templates: {{en-noun}} daddock (plural daddocks)
  1. (UK, dialect) The rotten body of a tree. Tags: UK, dialectal
    Sense id: en-daddock-en-noun-6AVPLX5~ Categories (other): British English

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1866, Isaac B. Rich, Gazelle: A True Tale of the Great Rebellion, and Other Poems, page 137",
          "text": "We crushed the flowers to dust again, And leaped the daddock pile, And hunted, with a careless rein, The foe in savage style.",
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          "text": "and you have not enough Of fairness left to tempt a truant hand To pluck you from the daddock in the clough, And give your spirit to the summer land",
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          "ref": "1890, Emma Rood Tuttle, From Soul to Soul, page 198",
          "text": "The partridge drums upon the hill, a daddock old and battered, While, now and then, an oriole lights up a scarlet gleam.",
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          "ref": "1892, Hudson Tuttle, The Convent of the Sacred Heart, page 4",
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          "ref": "1898, Gustav Pearlson, Twelve Centuries of Jewish Persecution, page 234",
          "text": "Christendom's favouring renegades was of the greatest service to the Hebrew race, for it helped Judaism to despumate her ills and diseases; every tree has its daddock. The blackmailing Jewish apostates were the daddock of Israel.",
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          "ref": "1873, London Society",
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          "ref": "1890, Emma Rood Tuttle, From Soul to Soul, page 198",
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