subs. (common).—The hand; or fist. TO TIP THE DADDLE, to shake hands. For synonyms, see BUNCH OF FIVES, to which may be added the following lists:—
ENGLISH SYNONYMS. Chalk-farm; claw; clutch; cornstealer; duke; fam; famble; feeler; fin; flapper; flipper; forceps; forefoot; fork; grappling-iron or hook; goll (old); oar; paddle; palette; paw; plier; shaker; wing; Yarmouth mitten.
FRENCH SYNONYMS. Les abatis or abattis (popular: a term applied to both hands and feet; properly giblets); l’agrafe (common; hook or clasp); la croche (thieves’: properly a quaver; possibly influenced by croc = hook, grapnel, or drag; an allusion to the hooked appearance of the musical note); la cuiller (popular: literally a spoon); les brancards (popular: this expression, like abatis, is also used of the feet; properly = shafts, as of a cart); l’arguemine (thieves’); le battoir (popular: properly a washerwoman’s ‘bat’); un gigot (popular: a large, thick hand, a ‘mutton fist’); le grappin; les harpions (also = feet).
ITALIAN SYNONYM. Gramoso (properly ‘a wretch’); cerra.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
1789. G. PARKER, Life’s Painter, p. 143, s.v.
1819. T. MOORE, Tom Crib’s Memorial to Congress, p. 23.
| From this to the finish, ’twas all fiddle faddle— | |
| Poor Georgy, at last, could scarce hold up his DADDLE. | |
| Ibid. | |
| With DADDLES high uprais’d, and nob held back, | |
| In awful prescience of th’ impending thwack. |
1827. SCOTT, The Two Drovers, ch. ii. Ah, this comes of living so long with kilts and bonnets—men forget the use of their DADDLES.
1842. Punch, vol. III., p. 136. And her DADDLE link’d in his’n gone to roam as lovers use.
1849. C. KINGSLEY, Alton Locke, ch. v. ‘Tip us your DADDLE, my boy,’ said the second speaker.
