An archaic or dialect term meaning a blockhead, fool, or stupid person; literally a 'poll' or head that is 'doddy' or thick-witted.
Compound of 'doddy' (thick, stupid) and 'poll' (head). This insult was used in early modern English to describe someone lacking intelligence, combining the Scottish term with an older English word for the head.
Shakespeare's contemporaries would have understood 'doddypoll' as a cutting insult combining physical and mental dimness—it's a reminder that creative insults in older texts were often anatomically or descriptively literal.
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