Note hoddy doddy — KEMPS NINE DAIES WONDER, PERFORMED IN A MORRICE FROM LONDON TO NORWICH.
Reading edition
P. 21, l. 29, hoddy doddy.]—A term of contempt, which occurs in B. Jonson’s Every Man in his Humour, Act iv. sc. 8, Works, i. 141, ed. Gifford, and is used by a comparatively recent writer, Swift. See Richardson’s Dict. in v.