hoddydoddy

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An awkward or foolish person. obsolete
    — 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
  2. A snail; a snail’s shell. England,obsolete
    — A River snail in Oxfordshire is “Hoddy-doddy”; in Northamptonshire the Wall snail is “Packman snail.”

词形变化

hoddydoddies plural

词源

From hoddy-dod, an obsolete English regionalism meaning “periwinkle” or “snail”. Compare dodman.
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