Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
hooded crow (which see, underhooded .)
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) See Dun crow, under
dun , a.
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Examples
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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 yes-that-mom 2005
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I'll never allow myself to be cozened into another of your hoddy-peaked schemes, Gord.
Night Arrant Gygax, Gary 1987
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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."
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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 1898
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"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 Amy Walton 1873
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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 William Kemp 1833
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My master is a personable man, and not a spindle-shank hoddy doddy.
The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 Jonathan Swift 1706
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Art here agayne thou hoddy peke, what doll bryng me out my spitte.
Gammer Gurton's Needle Anonymous 1575
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-- 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.
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Furd has been a bit hoddy in the peak ere since. "
Night Arrant Gygax, Gary 1987
madmouth commented on the word hoddy
Archaic term for 'cheerful', lending in compound to hoddypoll a.k.a. cuckold or fool (with noddypoll and doddypoll having roughly the same meaning)
November 18, 2012