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noddle

American  
[nod-l] / ˈnɒd l /

noun

Older Slang.

  1. the head or brain.

noddle 1 British  
/ ˈnɒdəl /

noun

  1. informal the head or brains

    use your noddle!
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noddle 2 British  
/ ˈnɒdəl /

verb

  1. informal to nod (the head), as through drowsiness

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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

Why, of course I will!" cried Rhoda Polly the golden-hearted; "why did it ever get into your stupid old noddle that I would not?

From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

It's been fairly rubbed into my noddle that Vail was in the elevator!

From In the Onyx Lobby by Wells, Carolyn

What the dickens can be in old Wiseman's noddle now?

From Sharing Her Crime by Fleming, May Agnes

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