Meaning of hoddy-peak | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A fool, person of low intelligence.
   obsolete
2. A cuckold, a married man whose wife is unfaithful.
   obsolete

Examples

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

“Then answered the Pharisees, Num et vos seducti estis? "What, ye brain-sick fools, ye hoddy-pecks, ye doddy-pouls, ye huddes, do ye believe⟳ him? are you seduced also?[…]"”

“No other apt means had this Cicely, to work⟳ her hoddy-peak husband a proportionable plague to his jealousy, but to give⟳ his head a full lodging of infamy: she thought she would make⟳ him complain⟳ for something, that now was so hard bound with an heretical opinion.”

“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.”

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