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No matter how disjointed the column or how doddy the columnist, the notion that America could somehow be saved by a military coup begs this question: Saved for whom and to what purpose? clb72 Says:

Matthew Yglesias » Sowell’s Coup 2007

He obviously wanted tough but achieved the titanically silly -- like your doddy old grandpa grumbling about political pet peeves.

Leonce Gaiter: McCain Was Presidential, Yes -- Nixonian 2008

Timmy had taken to bed with him a box of talcum powder wrapped in a towel, as a "doddy."

Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

I told him; and all his anger turned to laughter, swearing it did him good to haue ill words of a hoddy doddy {21: 29}, a habber de hoy {21: 30}, a chicken, a squib, a squall {21: 30}, one that hath not wit enough to make a ballet, that, by

Kemps Nine Daies Wonder Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich William Kemp 1833

My master is a personable man, and not a spindle-shank hoddy doddy.

The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 Jonathan Swift 1706

One of the adults turns out to be a kindly retired policeman, a little doddy, who knows that something nefarious is afoot but no one else believes him.

UncleBear 2009

“Why — let me see — the two black — the dun one — yon doddy — him with the twisted horn — the brockit — How much by the head?”

Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

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Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2009

(Old Play), ‘hoddy-doddy’ (Ben Jonson); while of alliterative might be instanced these: ‘skimble-skamble’, ‘bibble-babble’ (both in

English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

P. 21, l. 29, hoddy doddy.] -- A term of contempt, which occurs in B. Jonson's _Every Man in his Humour_, Act iv. sc.

Kemps Nine Daies Wonder Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich William Kemp 1833