dodie
noun/ˈdoʊdi/
1
Ireland A baby's pacifier or soother.
- "Don't you have a dodie for her?” "Dodie?" "Ah..." Blaine hesitated. "Pacifier." "Oh! It's one of those things I haven't gotten yet. She doesn't seem to look for one."2018 May 1, Rachel Lee, A Bachelor, a Boss and a Baby, Harlequin, →ISBN:
- "Dodie trees" are not often associated with holy wells; in fact, the young child finishing with nursing or teething can be asked to give the dodie (teether or pacifier) to the fairies by letting family members hang it on a tree.2023, Celeste Ray, Finbar McCormick, Holy Wells of Ireland: Sacred Realms and Popular Domains, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 25: