daddock

The rotten body of a tree.

Noun

  1. The rotten body of a tree.
    • We crushed the flowers to dust again, And leaped the daddock pile, And hunted, with a careless rein, The foe in savage style. - 1866, Isaac B. Rich, Gazelle: A True Tale of the Great Rebellion, and Other Poems, page 137:
    • and you have not enough Of fairness left to tempt a truant hand To pluck you from the daddock in the clough, And give your spirit to the summer land - 1873, London Society:
    • The partridge drums upon the hill, a daddock old and battered, While, now and then, an oriole lights up a scarlet gleam. - 1890, Emma Rood Tuttle, From Soul to Soul, page 198:

Origin

Compare dialectal English dad (“large piece”), and see -ock.

Forms

daddocks

Derived

daddocky