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单词 tom doodle
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Tom doodle
Tom doodle n. (also Tom-a-doodle) Obsolete a clown, a fool; a stupid or foolish person, an oaf; cf. doodle n. 1.
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1698 E. Ward O Raree Show 1 The first that appeard was a great Tom-a-doodle, With a Cap like Bushel, to cover his Noddle.
1708 E. Ward London Terræ-filius No. 5. 10 That one Tom-doodle of a Son, who..if he happens to be Decoy'd..to fling away Two Pence in Strong Drink, he Talks of nothing but his Mother.
1761 Scotch Portmanteau opened at York 130 What a Zany..what an Hare-brained Fellow, what a Tom Doodle he has got in his Diocese.
1866 W. Thornbury Greatheart I. ii. 24 Why, I should be a ‘letter-pooch’ and a ‘tom-doodle’, if I didn't know the road across every moor thirty mile round Camelford!
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