Lexicographical Neighbors of Doddies
Literary usage of Doddies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Polled Aberdeen Or Angus Cattle: Giving an Account of the Origin by James Macdonald, James Sinclair (1882)
"... in 1832—Polled Galloway cattle in Aberdeenshire—Early polled breeders in
Aberdeenshire—Improved breed direct descendants of Angus doddies and Buchan ..."
2. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Home Farmer (1883)
"This celebrated authority gives a full description of the Angus doddies as he
found them, and details at length the doings of the first great improver of ..."
3. Folklore by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1891)
"Instead of tangle, " carle doddies" (Plantago lanceolata] are used. Country children,
and sometimes grown-up folks, amuse themselves with playing at ..."
4. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England by Royal Agricultural Society of England (1881)
"The two strongholds of the native polls were Angus in Forfarshire, and Buchan in
Aberdeenshire. The Angus people called them " doddies," the Buchan people ..."
5. Cattle and Dairy Farming by United States Bureau of Foreign Commerce (1888)
"... of Keillor, on entering that farm, in 1808, at once began a systematic experiment
of the Angus doddies in which he was so eminently successful that his ..."
6. Cattle and Dairy Farming by United States Bureau of Foreign Commerce (1888)
"From this stock Mr. Watson produced tho Angus doddies, which made his name famous
throughout, the country. The improved Angus cattle had reached such a ..."
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