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Noddle
noun, verb, slang
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Noun
- 1 The head; the part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs. UK, informal
"But being restored to the open aire, the cafe with him was little altred; for no roofe had he to hide his noddle in, or whither he might go to set up his rest, but in the streets under a bulk he should have been constrainted to have kenneld […]"
- 2 an informal British expression for head or mind wordnet
- 3 The head as the seat of mental capacity or intellect. UK, informal
"No doubt (said the Barber) but I wonder not so much at the Knights madnesse, as the Squires simplicity, that beleeves so in the Islands, and I think all the Art in the world will not drive that out of his noddle."
- 4 The back of the head; nape. obsolete
"They muste absteine from ouer much slepe, and not to slepe in the day time, nor [upon] the noddle of the head […]"
Verb
- 1 To nod repeatedly. intransitive
- 2 Alternative form of noodle (“improvise musically”). alt-of, alternative
"[…] a rolling bass figure in 2/4 over which two semi-tuned electric guitars are noddling rhythm and blues."
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