10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DODDYPOLL»
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
doddypoll . A M.E. and C.15–18 nickname for a doll, a fool; extant in dial. In late C
. 16–mid-17, occ. Doctor Doddypoll. Apperson. Ex dod, to lop, poll, clip, and poll,
the head. cf. preceding.
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
See doddypoll. doddle, n. Money 'very easily obtained: Glasgow (—1934). By
1940, fairly gen., but low. (Norman.)_2. A 'walk-over': racing, since ca. 1920,- by
mid-1940s, gen. s., as in 'Pity you didn't come last night. It was a doddle' (Zoe
Progl ...
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Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Doddypoll. A blockhead, a silly ass. Poll, of course, is the head ; and doddy is the
modern dotty, silly, from the verb to dote, to be foolish or silly. There is an
Elizabethan romantic comedy (about 1595) called The Wisdom of Doctor
Doddypoll, ...
Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, 2001
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Introductions, Notes, and Commentaries to Texts in 'The ...
152 pill'd Doddy, i.e. 'doddypoll', a proverbial term for blockhead, a fool. The
quibble on ' pill'd ' plays on the pills that a doctor administers, but also implies 'pol
', as in the phrase 'pill and poF, meaning 'to strip bare, pillage' (see I.T.B.N., V.iv.
90 ...
Cyrus Henry Hoy, Fredson Bowers, 2009
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Proverbial Language in English Drama Exclusive of ...
D429 DOCTOR DODDYPOLL (From c1513; cf. Wh D290 Daw Doddypoll from
1402) c1513 (? 15 15) Hick Scorner CI 695. 1566 (1573) Gascoigne Supposes
1.1.108f. 1599 (1600) Dekker Old Fortunatus 4.2.105. c1599 (1600) The Wisdom
of ...
Robert William Dent, 1984
With a slippery, ever twisting plot that is set inside a very confused computer, Catherine Jinks's latest novel will pull in fans of adventure, computer games, and just plain fun.
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The Aberdeen-Angus Herd Book
5, 1917; sire Doddypoll (37417), dam Ann 18th of Wester Leochel (43635) by
Evolen of Ballindalloch (25614), g. d. Ann 15th of Wester Leochel (33543) by
Mazeppa (18192), 3 d. Ann 9th of Wester Leochel (29934). See Bull No. 43871.
Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Society, 1919
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Picturesque expressions: a thematic dictionary
Doctor Doddypoll A dolt; a simpleton; a nincompoop; a blockhead. The origin of
this expression is questionable. The most plausible explanation attributes it to a
combining of the words poll 'head,' and daddy, an old form of the modern word ...
Laurence Urdang, Walter W. Hunsinger, Nancy LaRoche, 1985
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The works of Shakspere, revised from the best authorities: ...
By veal is probably meant well, sounded as foreigners usually pronounce that
word, and introduced merely for the sake of the subsequent question. In the play
of " Dr. Doddypoll," the same joke occurs : — " Doctor. Hans, my very special
friend, ...
William Shakespeare, 1843
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An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
Cf. Du.dot, also asendearing namefor small child, archaic Du. dodde, plug, Ger.
dial. dütte,nipple ofbreast. Ofobscure origin andhist. Dotty, shaky, isperh. rather
connected with dodder2 , or withdote and doited. Cf.obs. doddypoll, earlier (c.
