A wonderful piece of English dialect describing wood that has gone soft and rotten — the kind that crumbles under a firm boot rather than splitting cleanly. By extension it also means anything inferior, weak, or lacking substance: a daddocky excuse, a daddocky performance. The word has a satisfyingly squelchy quality that suits its meaning perfectly.
Half the fence posts turned out to be completely daddocky and snapped the moment we leaned on them.
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(UK, dialect) inferior; weak; tasteless.
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(UK, dialect) rotten; decayed (of wood).
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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