daddock

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English

Etymology

Compare dialectal English dad (“large piece”), and see -ock.

Pronunciation

Noun

daddock (plural daddocks)

  1. (UK, dialect) The rotten body of a tree.
    • 1866, Isaac B. Rich, Gazelle: A True Tale of the Great Rebellion, and Other Poems, page 137:
      We crushed the flowers to dust again, And leaped the daddock pile, And hunted, with a careless rein, The foe in savage style.
    • 1873, London Society:
      and you have not enough Of fairness left to tempt a truant hand To pluck you from the daddock in the clough, And give your spirit to the summer land
    • 1890, Emma Rood Tuttle, From Soul to Soul, page 198:
      The partridge drums upon the hill, a daddock old and battered, While, now and then, an oriole lights up a scarlet gleam.
    • 1892, Hudson Tuttle, The Convent of the Sacred Heart, page 4:
      Delicate sensitiveness will turn away in fear and disgust as some mouldering daddock is removed, and lizards, sloes, darting beetles, and plodding snails are dazed by the light.
    • 1898, Gustav Pearlson, Twelve Centuries of Jewish Persecution, page 234:
      Christendom's favouring renegades was of the greatest service to the Hebrew race, for it helped Judaism to despumate her ills and diseases; every tree has its daddock. The blackmailing Jewish apostates were the daddock of Israel.

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