Noodling

noun, verb

noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The practice and sport of fishing for catfish using the bare hands. uncountable
  2. 2
    Musical improvisation. countable

    "Unlike Basie's increasingly repetitious piano noodlings, Young's melodic gestures had a way of staying fresh and inventive."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of noodle form-of, gerund, participle, present

Example

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"Tom has been sitting in the other room noodling on his guitar all afternoon."

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