hoddydoddy

plural hoddydoddies

1. obsoleteAn awkward or foolish person.

   Well, good wife bawd, Cob’s wife, and you / That make your husband such a hoddy-doddy; / And you, young apple-squire, and old cuckold-maker

   1598, Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour, act IV, scene viii

   1 more example

   Name my accuſer ſaith he, or I defye thee Kemp at the quart ſtaffe. I told him, & all his anger turned to laughter: ſwearing it did him good to haue ill words of a hoddy doddy, a habber de hoy, a chicken, a ſquib, a ſquall: […]

   1600, William Kempe, Kemps nine daies vvonder

2. EnglandobsoleteA snail or its shell.

   A River snail in Oxfordshire is “Hoddy-doddy”; in Northamptonshire the Wall snail is “Packman snail.”

   1899, W.T. Fernie, Animal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure, page 448