Coddymoddy

Cod´dy`mod´dy

(kǒd´dŷ`mǒd´dŷ)

(Zool.) A gull in the plumage of its first year.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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There is also the black-headed gull (twenty-five plus), once known as a coddymoddy, in Suffolk and a Scoulton pewit in Norfolk, and the green woodpecker (twenty-five plus), or rain-bird, yaffle, and wood-awl.

Ode to a clodhopper

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