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Noddy   Listen
noun
Noddy  n.  (pl. noddies)  
1.
A simpleton; a fool.
Synonyms: tomnoddy.
2.
(Zool.)
(a)
Any tern of the genus Anous, as Anous stolidus.
(b)
The arctic fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis). Sometimes also applied to other sea birds.
3.
An old game at cards.
4.
A small two-wheeled one-horse vehicle.
5.
An inverted pendulum consisting of a short vertical flat spring which supports a rod having a bob at the top; used for detecting and measuring slight horizontal vibrations of a body to which it is attached.





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"Noddy" Quotes from Famous Books



... and were railed about with what had once been octagonal net-work, all now in sad disrepair. These tops hung overhead like three ruinous aviaries, in one of which was seen, perched, on a ratlin, a white noddy, a strange fowl, so called from its lethargic, somnambulistic character, being frequently caught by hand at sea. Battered and mouldy, the castellated forecastle seemed some ancient turret, long ago taken by assault, and then left to decay. Toward the stern, two high-raised ...
— The Piazza Tales • Herman Melville
... the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking: "Tis clear," cried they, "our Mayor's a noddy; And as for our Corporation—shocking To think we buy gowns lined with ermine For dolts that can't or won't determine What's best to rid us of our vermin! You hope, because you're old and obese, To find in the furry civic robe ease? Rouse up, sirs! Give your brains ...
— The Pied Piper of Hamelin • Robert Browning
... loseth all, By striving all to gain, I need no witness call But him whose thrifty hen, As by the fable we are told, Laid every day an egg of gold. 'She hath a treasure in her body,' Bethinks the avaricious noddy. He kills and opens—vexed to find All things like hens of common kind. Thus spoil'd the source of all his riches, To misers he a lesson teaches. In these last changes of the moon, How often doth one see Men made as poor as he By force of getting ...
— The Fables of La Fontaine - A New Edition, With Notes • Jean de La Fontaine


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