1639–61. Rump Songs, ii. [1662], 55. Every noddy … will … cry hoddy-doddy Here’s a Parliament all arse and no body.
1723. Swift, Mary the Cookmaid’s Letter (Chalmers, Eng. Poets, 1810, xi., 433). My master is a personable man, and not a spindle-shanked Hoddy-doddy.
Hoddy-peak (or -Peke), subs. (old).—A fool; a cuckold.
d. 1529. Skelton, Poems, ‘Duke of Albany.’ Gyue it up, And cry creke Lyke an huddy peke.
1551. W. Still, Gammer Gurton, O. P., ii., 45. Art here again, thou hoddypeke?
1554. Christopherson, Exh. ag. Rebel. They counte peace to be cause of ydelnes, and that it maketh men hodi-pekes and cowardes.
d. 1555. Latimer, Sermons, fol. 44, b. What, ye brainsicke fooles, ye hoddy-peakes, ye doddy poules.
1560. Nice Wanton (Dodsley, Old Plays, 4th ed., 1875, ii., 164). Yea, marry, I warrant you, master hoddy-peak.
1589. Nashe, Anatomie of Absurdities, b. Who, under her husband’s that hoddy-peke’s nose, Must have all the destilling dew of his delicate rose. [[326]]
1594. Nashe, Unf. Trav., 106 [Chiswick Press, 1891.] No other apte meanes had this poore shee captived Cicely to worke her hoddy peake husband a proportionable plague to his jealousy.