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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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Hoddie
noun
the Devil
20-
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hoodie
etymology:
origin obscure; perhaps a development from Scots
hoodie
or
hoodie craw
‘used figuratively and contemptuously of a person of sinister manner or aspect’; collected by
JS
; attested by
SR