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Noddle   Listen
noun
Noddle  n.  
1.
The head; also, noodle; used jocosely or contemptuously.
Synonyms: noggin. "Come, master, I have a project in my noddle."
2.
The back part of the head or neck. (Obs.) "For occasion... turneth a bald noddle, after she hath presented her locks in front, and no hold taken."





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"Noddle" Quotes from Famous Books



... of July is not breaking out in Habersham's noddle, for I can tell him that was the place most affected during ...
— Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals - In Two Volumes, Volume I. • Samuel F. B. Morse
... foolishness. Gladys is gone now, and Delight is your very good friend, your best friend in Rockwell. Just keep on being friends with her, and do all you can to be a good friend. Don't discuss Gladys with her, don't discuss her actions, or her jealousy, or whatever foolishness is in her pretty little noddle. You are both too young to take these things seriously. But if you are a kind, loyal little friend to her, she will soon learn to ...
— Marjorie's New Friend • Carolyn Wells
... rhymes do not have this same high moral tone. They indicate a total lack of respect for the Buddhist priests. This is not necessarily against the rhyme any more than against the priest, but it is an unfortunate disposition to cultivate in children. There are constant sallies at the shaved noddle of the priest. They speak of his head as a gourd, and they class him with the tiger as ...
— The Chinese Boy and Girl • Isaac Taylor Headland
... arts, philosophy, to study everything old Howard knew, which enabled him, on the edge of the grave, undauntedly to sneer at superstition, and to give me Jules Verne to read. 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. ...
— On the Makaloa Mat/Island Tales • Jack London


Words linked to "Noddle" :   Britain, UK, U.K., brain, mind, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, nous


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