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▪ I. dod, n.1 and int. dial. or vulgar.
In asseverations; originally a deformation of God. (Cf. adod; also dad3, bedad.)
1676G. Etherege Man of Mode ii. i, A Dod she's too serious. 1855Haliburton Nat. & Hum. Nat. 60 (Bartlett) I'll cut and run, and dot drot me if I don't. 1892Northumbld. Gloss. s.v., Dod! but yor a queer fellow! 1893Stevenson Catriona 14 And, dod! I believe the day's come now.
▪ II. dod, n.2 dial.|dɒd|
[Cognate with early mod. Du. dodde in same sense (‘caulis et spica typhæ palustris’ Kilian); also a stalk, staff, club (‘a little broach or spit, a reed’ Hexham).]
The Reed-Mace or Cat's-tail, Typha latifolia.
a1661Fuller Worthies, Northampton ii. (1662) 290 Dods, Waterweeds (commonly called by children Cats Tales). 1847–78Halliwell, Dod, the fox-tail reed. North. 1864Alnwick Mercury 1 Mar. (Britten & Holland), Dod is the Reedmace (Typha latifolia, L.) in the north of England. 1882Friend Devonshire Plant-n.
▪ III. dod, dodd, n.3 north. dial.
[Evidently related to dod v.1; app. a specific application of a n. of which the primary sense was ‘rounded head’: cf. also doddy.]
In North of England and South of Scotland a frequent term for a rounded summit or eminence, either as a separate hill, or more frequently a lower summit or distinct shoulder or boss of a hill.
Rarely applied to a lower buttress when not rounded, as Skiddaw Dod. Usually forming part of a proper name, like the equivalent Welsh Moel (Foel), but also an appellative.
[1843Penny Cycl. XXVII. 248/2 (Westmoreland) Of which [branch] Dod Hill, Place Fell..and Swarth Fell are summits. ]1878Cumbld. Gloss., Dod, a round topped fell, generally an offshoot from a larger or higher mountain. 1879Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lakes 233 There are many hills in the district known by the appellation of Dodd, and they are generally small and attached to large mountains. 1882J. Hardy in Hist. Berw. Nat. Club IX. 452 Pike, crag, law, head, know, dod, edge, rig..predominate in the nomenclature of the Redesdale eminences. 1886G. A. Lebour Geol. Northumb. & Durh. (ed. 2) 24 Sand and gravel ‘dodds’. 1892Northumbld. Gloss., Dodd, a blunt hill, a butt end of a hill. Its occurrence is noted thirteen times in place-names in Northumberland.. The truncated chimney or ventilator of a malt-kiln is called the kiln-dodd.
▪ IV. dod, n.4 Sc.
[Gaelic dod peevishness.]
A slight fit of ill-humour; sullenness, peevishness.
1808in Jamieson. 1823Galt Entail II. 143 (Jam.) When she happens, poor body, to tak the dods now and then. 1823Misses Corbett Petticoat Tales I. 250 (Jam.) Her father has ta'en the dods at him.
▪ V. † dod, dodd, a. and pa. pple. Obs.
Short for dodded, q.v.
c1449Pecock Repr. ii. i. 135 He wole haue hise heer schorne of and his heed to be dod. 1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 99 White-wheat massledine will outsell dodd-reade massledine..grey wheate and long reade will outsell dodde read oftentimes. 1674–91Ray N.C. Words 21 Dodred Wheat; is red Wheat without beards.
▪ VI. dod, v.1 Obs. exc. dial.|dɒd|
[ME. dodden, app. from the same root as dod n.3: cf. doddy.
Wedgwood compares Fris. dodd, dadde, lump, clump, bunch; but the connexion is doubtful.]
trans. To make the top or head of (anything) blunt, rounded, or bare; hence, to clip or poll the hair of (a person); to deprive (an animal) of its horns; to poll or lop (a tree), etc.; also fig. to behead.
a1225Ancr. R. 422 Ȝe schulen beon i-dodded [= have your hair cut] four siðen iðe ȝere, uorto lihten ower heaued. a1307Pol. Songs (Camden) 192 Hue nolden take for huem raunsoun ne ware; Hue doddeth of huere hevedes, fare so hit fare. 1382Wyclif Lev. xix. 27 Ne ȝe shulen in rownde dodde heer, ne shave beerde. ― 2 Sam. xiv. 26 Onys in the ȝeer he was doddid, for the heere heuyde hym. c1440Promp. Parv. 125/1 Doddyn trees, or herbys, and oþer lyke, decomo, capulo. 1683Meriton Yorke-sh. Dialect 6 We mun dod our Sheepe. 1825Brockett N.C. Words, Dodd, to cut wool from and near the tails of sheep.—Doddings, the cuttings. Dod, to lop, as a tree, is an old word.
Hence ˈdodding vbl. n., the action of clipping the hair; tonsure; in pl., the wool clipped from a sheep.
a1225Ancr. R. 14 Of ower doddunge..& of ower blod letunge. 1825[see above]. 1847–78Halliwell, Doddings, the fore-parts of a fleece of wool. North.
▪ VII. dod, v.2 Obs. exc. dial.
[variant of dad v.]
trans. To beat, knock.
a1661Fuller Worthies i. (1662) 47 Our husbandmen in Middlesex make a distinction between dodding and threshing of wheat, the former being only the beating out of the fullest and fairest grain..Our comment may be said to have dodded the Sheriffes of several Counties. 1883Gd. Words 574 He..dodded our heids down on the desk. |