(obsolete, regional, England, East Anglia) A snail. / (obsolete) A fool.

plural of hoddy-dod

A large, flightless bird, †Raphus cucullatus, related to the pigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native to Mauritius.

(Nigeria) Fried plantain.

twelve

(UK, Australia, New Zealand) evasive and shifty / (UK, Australia, New Zealand) unsound and unreliable / dishonest / risky / deviant / uncomfortable and weird

(transitive, intransitive) To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way. / (transitive, figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep. / (archaic) To go hither and thither.

An act of dodging. / A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.) / (slang) A line of work.

(Australia) Dodgy.

(Britain, informal) A job, task or other activity that is simple or easy to complete.