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 Dod’ipoll.Dodo’na. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Dodman
 
or Doddiman. A snail. A word still common in Norfolk; but Fairfax, in his Bulk and Selvedge (1674), speaks of “a snayl or dodman.”
       
“Doddiman, doddiman, put out your horn,
Here comes a thief to steal your corn.”
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Norfolk rhyme.
 


 Dod’ipoll.Dodo’na. 

 
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