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
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
Oh, I shall have to drive it into his noddle by force, I see!
From 813 by Maurice Leblanc
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 Meredith Nicholson
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
All your noddles in, All your noddles out, Shake all your noddles a little a little, And turn yourselves about.
From Rhymes Old and New : collected by M.E.S. Wright by M. E. S. Wright
"Have they taken the notion of being virtuous, into their small noddles?"
From Uncle Titus and His Visit to the Country by Johanna Spyri
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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