Hummle Doddies
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
HUMMLE DODDIES (R8x32) 2C (4C set) Rosemary Legge1- 8 1s+2s set twice and dance RH across
9-16 1s+2s set twice and dance LH across
17-24 1s cross RH and cast 1 place (2s step up); 1s dance ½ Fig of 8 up round 2s
25-32 2s+1s dance R&L
(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)
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Hummle Doddies are fingerless gloves (i.e., gloves which cover only the wrist and palm of the hand and part of the thumb, leaving the fingertips unrestricted). The name originates in the Doric Scots dialect of northeastern Scotland, particularly the Aberdeenshire coast.Hummle (nowadays often spelt Hummel) was originally used to describe cattle and other livestock which had been polled (dehorned) but was extended to cover farm animals and some wild ones which are naturally hornless. Figuratively, the term became used for any object without projections, either by being cropped in some way or even naturally so.
Curiously, Doddies also means hornless in Scots (as in Angus Doddies, an early name for the, naturally hornless, Aberdeen Angus breed of cattle) and so the full name is somewhat tautological; the gloves are also known as Doddie-mittens.
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