hoddy-peak

plural hoddy-peaks · alternative hoddy peak · alternative hoddypeak · alternative huddipeak · alternative huddy-peke

1. obsoleteA fool, person of low intelligence.First known use c. 1500-1820

   He sayeth ‘Thou huddy-peke! / Thy learnyng is too lewd, / Thy tongue is not well thewed, / To seek before our grace.’

   1527, John Skelton, Womanhood, Wanton, Ye Want!

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   Then answered the Pharisees, Num et vos seducti estis? "What, ye brain-sick fools, ye hoddy-pecks, ye doddy-pouls, ye huddes, do ye believe him? are you seduced also?[…]"

   1549 March 22, Hugh Latimer, “The Third Sermon of M. Hugh Latimer, preached before King Edward”, in Project Canterbury, Sermons by Hugh Latimer

   No other apt means had this Cicely, to work her hoddy-peak husband a proportionable plague to his jealousy, but to give his head a full lodging of infamy: she thought she would make him complain for something, that now was so hard bound with an heretical opinion.

   1594, Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller: or, the Life of Jack Wilton

   Synonyms: alcatote, asshat, arsehole, asshole, bayard, berk, birdbrain, blither

2. obsoleteA cuckold, a married man whose wife is unfaithful.First known use c. 1590-1680

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   But women, through want of wisdom, are grown to such wantonness that upon no occasion they will cross the street to have a glance of some gallant,[…] who, under her husband's (that hoddypeak's) nose must have all the distilling dew of his delicate rose, leaving him only a sweet scent, good enough for such a senseless sot.

   1589, Thomas Nashe, The Anatomy of Absurdity (PDF)

   Synonyms: Acteon, cornuto, cuck, cuckold, cuckhold, skimmington, Vulcanian