Lexicographical Neighbors of Doddy
Literary usage of Doddy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"Curly doddy, do my biddin", (2) Scabiosa arvensis, L.—E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord.; S.
Scotl. Jamie- son. (3) Plantago lanceolata, L.—Forf. Jamieson. ..."
2. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"... -doddy, (1) ». A revolving thin!;; to scramble awkwardly; to ill anything
clumsily; to stammer, or hesitate ¡ to loiter. North. ..."
3. Studies in Board Schools by Charles Robert Morley (1897)
"doddy, you do look well,' and then she falls on his neck and kisses him again and
... Overcome by contending emotions, poor Teddy —or doddy, as she called ..."
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