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{{also|Dodman}}
==English==
{{was wotd|2018|May|24}}

===Etymology===
[[File:Roman Snail (Helix pomatia) - geograph.org.uk - 1348941.jpg|thumb|A [[Roman snail]] ({{taxlink|Helix pomatia|species}}), the largest [[species]] of [[snail]] in [[Britain]], in the [[North Downs]], [[England]], UK. This specimen was about 9 cm long.]]

Possibly {{suffix|en|dod|t1=(''[[Appendix:Glossary#archaic|archaic]]'') [[rounded#Adjective|rounded]], [[bare#Adjective|bare]] [[hilltop]]|man}}, in the sense of a creature carrying a [[hill]] on its back.<ref>{{cite-book|author=Bryan Kozlowski|chapter=Dodman|chapterurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=L5v0CwAAQBAJ&pg=PT111|title=What the Dickens?!: Distinctly Dickensian Words and How to Use Them|location=Philadelphia, Pa.|publisher={{w|Running Press}}|year=2016|isbn=978-0-7624-6077-9}}.</ref> The word ''dod'' is from {{m|en|dod||to [[clip#Verb|clip]], [[cut off|cut]] or [[lop#Verb|lop]] off}}, from {{der|en|enm|dodden||to [[shave#Verb|shave]], [[shear#Verb|shear]]; to [[trim#Verb|trim]] (a plant); to [[poll#Verb|poll]] (cattle); to cut off (someone's head)}},<ref>{{R:MED Online|entry=dodden|pos=v|id=MED12294|accessdate=14 August 2017}}</ref><ref name="World Wide Words">{{R:World Wide Words|entry=Hodmandod|url=http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-hod2.htm|date_created=19 April 2014}}</ref> from {{m|enm|dod}}, {{m|enm|dodde||[[measure#Noun|measure]] of [[grain]]}},<ref>{{R:MED Online|entry=dod(de|pos=n|id=MED12293|accessdate=14 August 2017}}</ref> from {{der|en|ang|-}}.

The ''surveyor'' sense appears to be based on a misconception by English amateur archaeologist and author {{w|Alfred Watkins}} (1855–1935) in his book ''{{w|The Old Straight Track}}'' (1925).<ref name="World Wide Words"/>

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˈdɒdmən/|a=RP}}
* {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-dodman.wav|a=Southern England}}
* {{IPA|en|/ˈdɑdmən/|a=GA}}
* {{hyphenation|en|dod|man}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun|s|dodmen<!--Mentioned in Kozlowski (2016) in the "References" section, but no attestations found.-->}} {{tlb|en|East Anglia|dialectal}}

# A [[land#Noun|land]]-[[based#Adjective|based]] [[snail]].
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:John Bale|title=[[w:King Johan|Kynge Johan]]|year=1538|newversion=published as|editor2=[[w:John Payne Collier|J[ohn] Payne Collier]]|title2=Kynge Johan. A Play in Two Parts.{{nb...|By John Bale. Edited by J. Payne Collier, Esq. F.S.A. from the Ms. of the Author in the Library of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire}}|location2=London|publisher2=Printed for the {{w|Camden Society}}{{nb...|by John Bowyer Nichols and Son, Parliament Street}}|year2=1838|page2=7|pageurl2=https://archive.org/stream/b29321372#page/7/mode/1up/|oclc2=54238302|passage=Yt is as great [[pity|pyte]] to se a woman [[weep|wepe]] / As yt is to se a [[sely]] '''dodman''' [[creep|crepe]], / Or, as ye wold say, a sely goose go barefote.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=[[w:Nathaniel Fairfax|N[athaniel] Fairfax]]; [[w:Samuel Parker (bishop of Oxford)|S[amuel] P[arker]]]|title=A Treatise of the Bulk and Selvedge of the World:{{nb...|Wherein the Greatness, Littleness, and Lastingness of Bodies are Freely Handled: With an Answer to Tentamine [sic:Tentamina] de Deo by S[amuel] P[arker] [...]}}|location=London|publisher=Printed for Robert Boulter [...]|year=1674|page=125|oclc=802089733|newversion=quoted in|2ndauthor=John Greaves Nall|chapter2=A Glossary of East Anglian Provincialisms.{{nb...|Based upon Those of Forby and Moor. With Large Additions, Etymological and Illustrative. A List of Abbreviations and References is Given at the End.}}|title2=An Etymological and Comparative Glossary of the Dialect and Provincialisms of East Anglia, with Illustrations Derived from Native Authors|location2=London|publisher2=[[w:Longman|Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer]]|year2=1866|page2=542|pageurl2=https://books.google.com/books?id=vOk9AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA542|oclc2=503898140|passage='''{{smallcaps|Dodman}}''' {{...}} In that a Snayl or '''Dodman''', which is not only not warm, but to our feeling very cold, is fain to brood its as cold sweaty eggs, nested upon a cold wet earth, bespewing them about with the fuzze of a cold clammy froth, in coldish [d]raughty weather, and all making way to a kind and timely hatching.|footer=<small>The page number of the 1674 work is stated in the 1847 quotation below.</small>}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Edward Moor|chapter={{smallcaps|Hodmandod}}|title=Suffolk Words and Phrases; or, An Attempt to Collect the Lingual Localisms of that County|location=Woodbridge, Suffolk|publisher=Printed by J. Loder, for R. Hunter{{nb...|No. 72, [[w:St Paul's Cathedral|St. Paul's Church-yard]], London}}|year=1823|page=174|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=6BMLAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA174|oclc=156107295|passage=A snail is also called '''Dodman''' in Suffolk and Norfolk.|brackets=on}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Charles Dickens|chapter=My ‘First Half’ at Salem House|title=[[w:David Copperfield|The Personal History of David Copperfield]]|location=London|publisher=w:Bradbury & Evans|date=14 November 1850|oclc=63963296|newversion=republished as|title2=The Personal History of David Copperfield. [...] In Three Volumes|series2=Collection of British Authors|seriesvolume2=175|edition2=Tauchniz|location2=Leipzig|publisher2=[[w:Tauchnitz publishers|Bernhard Tauchniz]]|year2=1850|volume2=I|page2=144|pageurl2=https://books.google.com/books?id=4VfRLIW5yr0C&pg=PA144|oclc2=781156679|passage="[...] I'm a reg'lar '''Dodman''', I am," said Mr. Peggotty, by which he meant snail, and this was his allusion to being slow to go, for he had attempted to go after every sentence, and had somehow or other come back again; "but I wish you both well, and I wish you happy!"}}
# A [[snail]]'s [[shell]].
#* {{RQ:Halliwell Dictionary|page=308|column=2|passage='''DODMAN'''. A snail. ''Norfolk.'' Also, a snail-shell.|brackets=on}}
# Any [[shellfish]] which casts its shell, such as a [[lobster]].
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Noah Webster|chapter=HOD′MANDOD|chapterurl=https://archive.org/stream/americandictiona01websrich#page/901/mode/1up/|title=[[w:Webster's Dictionary|An American Dictionary of the English Language:{{nb...|Intended to Exhibit, I. The Origin, Affinities and Primary Signification of English Words, as far as They have been Ascertained. II. The genuine Orthography and Pronunciation of Words, according to General Usage or to Just Principles of Analogy. III. Accurate and Discriminating Definitions, with Numerous Authorities and Illustrations. To which are Prefixed an Introductory Dissertation on the Origin, History and Connection of the Languages of Western Asia and of Europe and a Concise Grammar of the English Language. [...] In Two Volumes}}]]|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Published by S. Converse; printed by Hezekiah Howe, New Haven|year=1828|volume=I (A–I)|column=2|oclc=999480247|passage=HOD′MANDOD, ''n.'', A shell-fish, otherwise called '''dodman'''.|brackets=on}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Francis Lord Verulam; Viscount St. Alban &#91;{{w|Francis Bacon}}&#93;|chapter=Century VIII|title=Sylva Sylvarum, or, A Natural History, in Ten Centuries.{{nb...|Whereunto is Newly Added, the History Natural and Experimental of [Life] and Death, or of the Prolongation of Life. Published after the Authors Death. By William Rawley, Doctor in Divinity, One of His Majesties Chaplains. Whereunto is Added Articles of Inquiry, Touching Metals and Minerals. And the New Atlantis. As also the Life of the Right Honorable Francis Bacon, Never Added to this Book before. [...] With an Alphabetical Table of the Principal Things Contained in the Ten Centuries}}|edition=9th and last|location=London|publisher=Printed by J[ohn] R[edmayne] for William Lee,{{nb...|and are to be sold by George Sawbridg [''et al.'']}}|year=1670|page=154|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=5gU2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA154|oclc=42391224|passage=The Creatures that caſt their Skin are, the ''Snake'', the ''Viper'', the ''Grashopper'', the ''Lizard'', the ''Silk-worm'', &c. Thoſe that caſt their Shell are, the ''Lobſter'', the ''Crab'', the ''Cra-fish'', the ''Hodmandod'' or '''''Dodman''''', the ''Tortoise'', &c. The old Skins are found, but the old Shells never: So as it is like they ſcale off, and crumble away by degrees.}}
# {{lb|en|rare|possibly|erroneous}} A [[surveyor]].
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Arthur Watkins|chapter=Ley-men|chapterurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=d31eBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA87-IA7|title=[[w:The Old Straight Track|The Old Straight Track; Its Mounds, Beacons, Moats, Sites, and Mark Stones]]|location=London|publisher=[[w:Methuen Publishing|Methuen]]|year=[1925]|oclc=15072626|location2=London|publisher2=Head of Zeus|year2=2014|isbn2=978-1-78185-661-1|passage=At Wilmington in Sussex, the [[w:Long Man of Wilmington|Long Man]], with his 240 feet length cut into the turf on the hill-side{{nb...}}, the largest and perhaps the earliest representation of prehistoric man in England, carries two staves. Now the soldier carries but one spear, the shepherd one crook, the pedestrian one staff, the farmer one pike. The surveyor alone carries two rods. The Long Man is the '''dod-man''', the prehistoric surveyor.}}

====Related terms====
* {{l|en|hodmandod}}

===References===
<references />

===Further reading===
* {{pedia}}
* {{R:Collins English Dictionary|accessdate=14 August 2017}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=addmno|odd man}}

{{C|en|Snails}}

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