PEDDIE

PEDDIE. Mr. Ferguson thinks that tliis word is a derivative of the old Norse ijcd, a mannikin or dwarf, and to the same origin he assigns Puddy, Peede, Put, Peddle, and several other not very intelligible names.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.