hoddy

• “I have on a shirt, a long sleeve button up shirt/jacket thing, plus my zip-up hoddy sweatshirt.”

  Last Five Things I Had To Say

• “I'll never allow myself to be cozened into another of your hoddy-peaked schemes, Gord.”

  Night Arrant

• “At other parts of the coast than Yarmouth, it seems that the uppermost width of net bears exclusively the name of _hoddy_, the second width being called the first _lint_, the third width the second lint, and the fourth the third lint, or, as before, "depynges.”

  Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850

• “She rose to have another look at the hoddy-place in which she had concealed the glove from her husband, and as she did so she caught sight of him at the window.”

  Tommy and Grizel

• “You've brought yer house on yer back like a hoddy-dod," she said with a grin.”

  White Lilac; or the Queen of the May

• “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”

  Kemps Nine Daies Wonder Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich

• “My master is a personable man, and not a spindle-shank hoddy doddy.”

  The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2

• “Art here agayne thou hoddy peke, what doll bryng me out my spitte.”

  Gammer Gurton's Needle

• “-- the bluff, straightforward old farmers, the independent yeomanry, the drawling and gawky hoddy-doddies from the "hill country," and the grinning good-natured, thick-lipped, and woolly-headed Africans.”

  Social relations in our Southern States,

• “Furd has been a bit hoddy in the peak ere since. ”

  Night Arrant

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