Hoddy-peak

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A fool, person of low intelligence. obsolete

    "He sayeth ‘Thou huddy-peke! / Thy learnyng is too lewd, / Thy tongue is not well thewed, / To seek before our grace.’"

  2. 2
    A cuckold, a married man whose wife is unfaithful. obsolete

    "But women, through want of wisdom, are grown to such wantonness that upon no occasion they will cross the street to have a glance of some gallant,[…] who, under her husband's (that hoddypeak's) nose must have all the distilling dew of his delicate rose, leaving him only a sweet scent, good enough for such a senseless sot."

Etymology

From hoddydoddy + dialectal peak (“head”).

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