hoddydoddy noun2 •(no longer used) An awkward or foolish person.Well, good wife bawd, Cob’s wife, and you / That make your husband such a hoddy-doddy; / And you, young apple-squire, and old cuckold-maker — 1598 •(no longer used) A snail or its shell.A River snail in Oxfordshire is “Hoddy-doddy”; in Northamptonshire the Wall snail is “Packman snail.” — 1899 formshoddydoddies