noddy
noun
any of several dark-bodied terns of the genera Anous and Micranous found about the coasts and islands in warm seas of both the New and Old Worlds, often so tame as to seem stupid.
noddies
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pluralof noddy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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But a staff investigation reportedly found that no fake "noddies" had ever been broadcast.
From BBC ● May 25, 2025
Their modelling shows that if rats were removed from these 25 islands that could result in populations of lesser noddies, sooty terns and red-footed boobies recovering to nearly 24,000 breeding pairs -- an 18-fold increase.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2024
They compared reefs next to islands with thriving populations of seabirds, such as red-footed boobies, sooty terns and lesser noddies, against reefs next to islands with few seabirds.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 6, 2023
There are also nesting colonies of roughly 100,000 sooty terns, smaller groups of great frigatebirds, black and brown noddies, white terns, and tropicbirds.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 27, 2020
Great numbers of boobies and noddies came about us, but our distance from the shore was too great and our stay too short to send on shore for birds' eggs.
