10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HODMANDOD»
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
A fool, a dolt: C.16–early 17. 2. A cuckold: ca 1585–1640. Both senses orig. coll,
but by 1590, at latest, S.E. The hoddy, as in HODDY-DODDY, may at first have
been= a snail; cf. HODMANDOD. (Hoddy-poll, C.16, same meanings, may orig.
Eric Partridge, Jacqueline Simpson, 1973
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An Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases, and ...
A HODMANDOD. A provincial term for a snail. Er hoed m aen <T oed ; q. e. there
the naked one with a hood on it, there is the naked one with the shell [shelter,
hood, cover] along with it ; and the distinguishing mark of the snail, from the ...
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An essay on the archaiology of popular English phrases and ...
A HODMANDOD. A provincial term for a snail. Er hoed m aen d' oed ; q. e. there
the naked one with a hood on it, there is the naked one with the shell [shelter,
hood, cover] along with it ; and the distinguishing mark of the snail, from the ...
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Both senses orig. coll., but by 1590, at latest, S.E. The hoddy, as in hoddy-doddy,
may at first have been I a snail; cf. hodmandod. (Hoddy-poll, C.16, same
meanings, may orig. have been coll) hodman. Oxford University 5. > coll.: 1677,
SOD ...
5
Human Prehistory in Fiction
An Anglicized variant of "Hodmandod" was actually a pejorative used by mid-
seventeenth century Dutch settlers for the Khoikhoi or Khoisan tribe of Southwest
Africa and the Northwest Cape region (OED). The term Hottentot is itself an ...
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Love in the Suds;: A Town Ecologue. Being the Lamentation of ...
Tho' humble Hiffernan in pay, I keep, Still my fast friend, when he is fast asteep ;
Tho' long the Hodmandod my friend hath been, With the land-tortoise carth'd at
Turnham-Green : * Tho' Harry Woodfall, Baldwin, Evans, Say, || My puffs in fairest
...
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The Vocabulary of East-Anglia Etc. - London, J. B. Nicols 1830
Hodmandod is pretty general. We are content with a part ofit. n. s. E. c. DOER, s.
an agent or manager for another. DOGS, s. pl. andirons on the hearth where
wood is the fuel. Carpenters also use dogs to'support some of their heavy work.
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A glossary; or, Collection of words ... which have been ...
A ludicrous term of reproach, generally equivalent to fool ; perhaps originally
synonymous with hodmandod, or snail. It is remarkable that Bacon enumerates
hodmandod, or dodman, among fish that cast their shells ; what he means is
doubtful.
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The Vocabulary of East-Anglia: An Attempt to Record the ...
Probably from the common vulgarism hoddy-doddy, as we also shorten
hodmandod to dodman. DODGE, s. a small lump of something moist and thick, as
of mortar, clay, &c. DODMAN, s. a snail. Hodmandod is pretty general. We are
content ...
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A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and ...
A ludicrous term of reproach, generally equivalent to fool ; perhaps originally
synonymous with hodmandod, or snail. It is remarkable that Bacon enumerates /
todmandod, or dodman, among fish that cast their shells ; what he means is
doubtful.
