dodie

plural dodies

1. IrelandA baby's pacifier or soother.

   "Don't you have a dodie for her?” "Dodie?" "Ah..." Blaine hesitated. "Pacifier." "Oh! It's one of those things I haven't gotten yet. She doesn't seem to look for one."

   2018 May 1, Rachel Lee, A Bachelor, a Boss and a Baby, Harlequin, →ISBN

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   "Dodie trees" are not often associated with holy wells; in fact, the young child finishing with nursing or teething can be asked to give the dodie (teether or pacifier) to the fairies by letting family members hang it on a tree.

   2023, Celeste Ray, Finbar McCormick, Holy Wells of Ireland: Sacred Realms and Popular Domains, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 25

1. A diminutive of the female given name Dorothy.