Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A cow without horns.
- Ill-natured; snappish.
- n. Specifically, a local name for the Aberdeen-Angus polled cattle.
Examples
“No matter how disjointed the column or how doddy the columnist, the notion that America could somehow be saved by a military coup begs this question: Saved for whom and to what purpose? clb72 Says:”
“He obviously wanted tough but achieved the titanically silly -- like your doddy old grandpa grumbling about political pet peeves.”
“Timmy had taken to bed with him a box of talcum powder wrapped in a towel, as a "doddy.”
“I told him; and all his anger turned to laughter, swearing it did him good to haue ill words of a hoddy doddy {21: 29}, a habber de hoy {21: 30}, a chicken, a squib, a squall {21: 30}, one that hath not wit enough to make a ballet, that, by”
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“My master is a personable man, and not a spindle-shank hoddy doddy.”
“One of the adults turns out to be a kindly retired policeman, a little doddy, who knows that something nefarious is afoot but no one else believes him.”
““Why — let me see — the two black — the dun one — yon doddy — him with the twisted horn — the brockit — How much by the head?””
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“(Old Play), ‘hoddy-doddy’ (Ben Jonson); while of alliterative might be instanced these: ‘skimble-skamble’, ‘bibble-babble’ (both in”
“P. 21, l. 29, hoddy doddy.] -- A term of contempt, which occurs in B. Jonson's _Every Man in his Humour_, Act iv. sc.”
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oroboros Also, doddie: a cow or bull without horns. Nov 10, 2008