Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The head.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The back part of the head or neck; also, the cerebellum.
- noun The head.
- To make light and frequent nods.
- To nod or cause to nod frequently.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The head; also,
noodle ; -- used jocosely or contemptuously. - noun obsolete The back part of the head or neck.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, informal the
head ; the part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs. - noun UK, informal the
head ; the seat of mental capacity or intellect - noun obsolete the back of the head,
nape .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an informal British expression for head or mind
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And had it not been that they had very well antidoted their stomach, heart, and wine-pot, which is called the noddle, they had been altogether suffocated and choked with these detestable vapours.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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And had it not been that they had very well antidoted their stomach, heart, and wine-pot, which is called the noddle, they had been altogether suffocated and choked with these detestable vapours.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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And had it not been that they had very well antidoted their stomach, heart, and wine-pot, which is called the noddle, they had been altogether suffocated and choked with these detestable vapours.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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He was an Oxford man before he went wild and wrong, and it was he who had set the Oxford bee buzzing in my noddle.
SHIN-BONES 2010
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When your "barmie noddle" is working at full tilt, its optimum moment may often be tantalisingly brief.
Graham Greene and the search for that 'Eureka!' moment Robert McCrum 2010
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It just has not entered Cameron ` s pretty noddle that people do not CARE about the promotion of the gay and green agendas.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Mr Briggs then, saying he had an engagement upon business, declined settling his own accounts till another time, but promised to see Cecilia again soon, and added, “be sure take care of that old Mr Bounce! cracked in the noddle; see that with half an eye! better not trust him! break out some day: do you a mischief!”
Cecilia 2008
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We couldn't find what I wanted in any of our cookbooks so we had settled on just chicken noddle.
Archive 2008-09-01 kat 2008
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Presently the drink got into his noddle, drunkenness mastered him and he knew not hand from head, so that he lolled from side to side in joy and inclined to the youths one and all, anon kissing them and anon embracing them leg overlying leg.
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I believe, in my conscience, there was some odd mistake in their births, and that my mother took away the brains of the man, and left the woman's for the noddle of my poor uncle. '
Camilla 2008
yarb commented on the word noddle
Citation on verb-grinder.
September 19, 2008
yarb commented on the word noddle
Citation on spick and span.
October 10, 2008
madmouth commented on the word noddle
This may, though the "brain looks like a bunch of noodles stuck together" theory has a certain visual appeal", be the origin of use your noodle
October 4, 2010
bilby commented on the word noddle
Isn't this what people who stand in the background behind politicians do?
October 4, 2010
madmouth commented on the word noddle
which is not to say they don't also doddle and maffle
October 4, 2010
bilby commented on the word noddle
See also capernoity.
July 6, 2022