subs. phr. (common).—A simpleton: see BUFFLE and CABBAGE-HEAD.
c. 1709. WARD, Terræ-filius, v. 10. That one TOM-DOODLE of a Son, who … if he happens to be Decoy’d … to fling away Two Pence in Strong Drink, he Talks of nothing but his Mother.
subs. phr. (common).—A simpleton: see BUFFLE and CABBAGE-HEAD.
c. 1709. WARD, Terræ-filius, v. 10. That one TOM-DOODLE of a Son, who … if he happens to be Decoy’d … to fling away Two Pence in Strong Drink, he Talks of nothing but his Mother.
