An Irish English word for a baby's pacifier or soother — the small rubber nipple-shaped object that parents give infants to suck on for comfort. The word is warm and distinctly Irish in flavor, used affectionately in everyday conversation from Dublin to Donegal. It's baby talk that became standard household vocabulary: parents lose dodies down the back of the sofa, babies scream until they get them back, and older siblings learn to weaponize this dynamic.
She couldn't settle the baby at all until she found the dodie rolled under the cot.
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(Ireland) A baby's pacifier or soother.
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