or -peke, subs. (old).—A fool; a cuckold.

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  d. 1529.  SKELTON, How the Douty Duke of Albany, etc.

        Gyue it up. And cry creke
Lyke an HUDDY PEKE.

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  1551.  STILL, Gammer Gurton’s Needle, iii. 3 [DODSLEY, Old Plays, ii. 45]. Chat. Art here agayne, thou HODDYPEKE?

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  1554.  J. CHRISTOPHERSON, An Exhortation to all Menne to Take Hede and Beware of Rebellions. They counte peace to be cause of ydelnes, and that it maketh men HODIPEKES and cowardes.

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  d. 1555.  LATIMER, Sermons, fol. 44, b. What, ye brainsicke fooles, ye HODDY-PEAKES, ye doddy poules.

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  1560.  Nice Wanton (DODSLEY, Old Plays, 4th ed., 1875, ii., 164). Dalilah. Yea, marry, I warrant you, master HODDYPEAK.

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  1589.  NASHE, The Anatomie of Absurditie, b. Who, under her husband’s that HODDY-PEKE’S nose, must have all the destilling dew of his delicate rose. Ibid. (1594), The Unfortunate Traveller, 106 [Chiswick Press, 1891]. No other apte meanes had this poore shee captived Cicely to worke her HODDY PEAKE husband a proportionable plague to his jealously.

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