noddle
Americannoun
noun
verb
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
Oh how they doddle around her old noddle!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 October 7, 1893 by Various
But one day he took it into his silly noddle that the elfin cow was getting old, and that he had better fatten her for the market.
From British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Sikes, Wirt
And please get it into your noddle that I have no intention of becoming your rival for her hand.
From The Siege of the Seven Suitors by Nicholson, Meredith
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