| 释义 |
ˈdodman Now dial.
[Origin unknown: connexion with dod n.3 has been suggested. Other local names are hodman-dod, hoddy-doddy.]
A snail.
c1550Bale K. Johan (Camden) 7 Yt is as great pyte to se a woman wepe, As yt is to se a sely dodman creepe. 1625Lisle Du Bartas, Noe 149 Two crooked lines, One like a crawling snake, one like a dodman twines. 1626Bacon Sylva §732 [Animals] that cast their Shell, are; The Lobster, the Crab, the Crafish, the Hodmandod or Dodman, the Tortoise. 1633Ames Agst. Cerem. ii. 28 Time..to pull in the hornes of this dodmons accusation. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 125 A Snayl or Dodman..is not only not warm, but to our feeling, very cold. 1674Ray S. & E.C. Words 65 A Dodman: a shell-snail or Hodmandod, Norf. 1848Dickens Dav. Copp. vii, ‘I'm a reg'lar Dodman’, said Mr. Peggotty, by which he meant snail. |