Word of the Day: HUDDLE-DUDDLE

ETYMOLOGY
?? huddle is an obsolete word for a miserly old person

EXAMPLE
“…Yea, in the worde of one no more wealthy then hee was, (wealthy saide I? may I’le be sworne hee was a grande iurie man in respect of me,) those graybeard Huddle-duddles and crusty cum-twangs were strooke with stuch stinging remorse of their miserable Euclionisme and snudgery…”

From: Lenten Stuffe
– Thomas Nashe, 1599

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