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
Now—heave up his noddle, and strap it about!
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Freneau, Philip
What the dickens can be in old Wiseman's noddle now?
From Sharing Her Crime by Fleming, May Agnes
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
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