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NOUNS 1. a snail, a snail shell (dialect) 2. a short and dumpy or thickset person (obsolete) 3. a cuckold; a henpecked man (obsolete) 4. a foolish or ridiculous person; a simpleton; a dupe (obsolete) also HODDIE-DODDIE CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY From E-NED: The element dod is evidently the same as in dodman, a shell-snail; hoddy-dod, hoddy-doddy, hodman-dod, are perhaps in origin nursery reduplications; but the element hoddy- appears itself to have come to be associated with or to mean ‘snail’ (or ? horned) - for the noun cuckold - with reference to the ‘horns’ of a cuckold EXAMPLE From: Like Master, Like Man By John Palmer, Vol. I, 1811 Chapter XI. P. 159
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