tom doodle n.
a fool.
Female Wits I ii: I believe our People wou’d dance after any Tom-Dingle for a pen’rth of Sugar-plums. | ||
‘Helter Skelter’ in | Poems on Divers Subjects (1706) 163: I say, Sir, you're a Popish Biggot, / A Tyrant’s Slave, a Loyal Maggot,/ A sneaking, servile Tom-a-doodle.||
Hudibras Redivivus I:7 7: Compos’d of Non-sense and Ill-nature, / Squeez’d out from the illit’rate Noddle / Of some dull, canting, Tom a Doodle. | ||
Humours of a Coffee-House 10 Oct. 34: The Effeminate Tom-Doodle of a Fop, looks like a Catamite. | ||
Vulgus Britannicus III 33: To make the Sov’raign Pow’r a Bauble, / And labour’d like a Tom-a-doodle, / To place the Rump above the Noddle. |