subs. (old).—1. A snail in his shell—BACON. See DODDY.
1663. KILLIGREW, The Parson’s Wedding, v., 4 (DODSLEY, Old Plays, 4th ed., 1875, xiv., 525). Painted snails, with houses on their backs, and horns as big as Dutch cows!… Can any woman be honest that let’s such HODMANDODS crawl o’er her virgin breast and belly?
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v.
1726. A New Canting Dictionary, s.v.
1728. BAILEY, Dictionarium Britannicum, s.v.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
2. (old).—A Hottentot.
1686. CAPTAIN COWLEY in Harris Voyages, i., 82. We walked, moreover, without the town to the villages inhabited by the HODMANDODS, to view their nasty bodies.
