Uncertain. The English Dialect Dictionary mentions several other spellings found in other dialects (nedack, neddick, nudack, nuddick, nudeck) and compares it to nod, found in e.g. John Coker Egerton's Sussex Folk and Sussex Ways (1884). Compare the ending to -ock.
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