Noddle

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

(UK, informal) The head; the part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs..

Definitions by Sense

1. (UK, informal) The head; the part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs.
2. (UK, informal) The head as the seat of mental capacity or intellect.
3. (obsolete) The back of the head; nape.
4. (intransitive) To nod repeatedly.
5. Alternative form of noodle (“improvise musically”).

Example Sentences

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 […]

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.

Thus far the Poet; but his brains grow Addle, / And all the reſt is purely from this Noddle.

Novv vvhat can have got into that precious noddle of thine, my dear brother Toby? cried my father, mentally.

They muste absteine from ouer much slepe, and not to slepe in the day time, nor [upon] the noddle of the head […]

[…] a rolling bass figure in 2/4 over which two semi-tuned electric guitars are noddling rhythm and blues.

The album is almost ruined by some muzak-style noddling for strings and keyboards.

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• noddles
• noddling
• noddled

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