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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