noddle
Americannoun
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noddles
plural
noun
verb
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of noddle
1375–1425; late Middle English nodel
Example Sentences
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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
Upon vich, the beak replies, a-shakin' of his vise noddle, 'Give it to the person in whose persession it was found.
From Auriol or, The Elixir of Life by W. Harrison Ainsworth
Ods my life, this your tale makes my noddle buzz with amaze.
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang
There is never anything else in your noddle, Kooran, but rats and rabbits.
From Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea by Gordon Stables
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
"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 William E. Dodd
If the folks here want their country to go ahead, they must honour the plough; and General Campbell ought to hammer that 'ere into their noddles, full chisel, as hard as he can drive.
From The Clockmaker Or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
So you have," said she;—"nasty, slatternly girls, without an idea inside their noddles.
From He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope
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