hoddy-peak
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.05 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
Usage
Inflected Forms
hoddy-peaks (plural)
hoddy peak (alternative)
hoddypeak (alternative)
huddipeak (alternative)
huddy-peke (alternative)