noddle
Americannoun
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noddles
plural
noun
verb
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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
Upon vich, the beak replies, a-shakin' of his vise noddle, 'Give it to the person in whose persession it was found.
From Auriol or, The Elixir of Life by W. Harrison Ainsworth
By Jove, I wish I'd some of your ballast in my noddle.
From A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope
Oh how they doddle around her old noddle!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 October 7, 1893 by Various
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
But, no—for so humble a bard 'Tis a subject too trying to touch on; Such noblemen's names are too hard, And their noddles too soft to dwell much on.
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti
The world—things generally—what interests you and me; what interests Uncle Amy and Mr. Perry; the buzzings in all our noddles.
From Otherwise Phyllis by Charles Dana Gibson
The 'Orm' is one of those pig-headed people who get a notion into their precious noddles and need a surgical operation to get it out again.
From Loyal to the School by Angela Brazil
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