noddle
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of noddle
1375–1425; late Middle English nodel
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BST15:57 54 min Martin O’Neill is doing his noddle on the touchline as Glick comes around the wrong side of the ball and hooks Long’s knee with his.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 11, 2015
But the old man was tired and muddled with his backsight, and dreams were in his noddle.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
It called back a vision Of youth, and those girls of John Leech's, John Leech's, Of "corkscrews" that "doddle" all round a fair noddle, Blue eyes and flushed cheeks like ripe peaches, ripe peaches.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 October 7, 1893 by Various
Maybe by the time you gets back, the old un’ll be awake, an’ ha’ his noddle clear enough to help us think o’ something.”
From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne
Why shakes his bells, Dobbin, His old noddle bobbing, As if there were strangers upon the green lea?
From The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)
Loyalists subsequently fired back with their own revamp, mocking the patriots: “Come shake your dull noddles, ye pumpkins and bawl, and own that you’re mad at fair liberty’s call.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2017
Ms. Sarikaya laughed and then the two of them discussed whether to blanch noodles before saucing them; Ms. Olsen prefers a quick boil, while Ms. Sarikaya worries that it will leave the noddles too watery.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2017
In the hot-house of your noddles Are some plants called art and science, And you even brag of such weeds.
From The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. by Scheffel, Joseph Victor von
You shake your empty noddles now, jolly topers, and do not believe what I tell you here, any more than if it were some tale of a tub.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
"Everybody cries, a union is absolutely necessary," said Franklin in amused disgust, "but when it comes to the manner and form of the union, their weak noddles are perfectly distracted."
From Beginnings of the American People by Dodd, William E.
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