noddle
Americannoun
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noddles
plural
noun
verb
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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
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 G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
"Are you afraid I shall always be weak in my noddle?" he asked.
From The White Peacock by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Ods my life, this your tale makes my noddle buzz with amaze.
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang
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
The silly geese now got it through their noddles that there was danger about, and every night thereafter came close up to the house to roost.
From Winter Sunshine by John Burroughs
Ye should ken that sang, if ye hae lear aneugh in your steel-bound noddles.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various
A knotty piece of work he'll have betwixt your noddles.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by Sir Walter Scott
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