Noddle
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Noddle is a 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.
Meaning
(UK, informal) The head; the part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs.
More Meanings
- (UK, informal) The head as the seat of mental capacity or intellect.
- (intransitive) To nod repeatedly.
- Alternative form of noodle (“improvise musically”).
- (obsolete) The back of the head; nape.
Example Sentences
The album is almost ruined by some muzak-style noddling for strings and keyboards.
Thus far the Poet; but his brains grow Addle, / And all the reſt is purely from this Noddle.
[…] a rolling bass figure in 2/4 over which two semi-tuned electric guitars are noddling rhythm and blues.
Novv vvhat can have got into that precious noddle of thine, my dear brother Toby? cried my father, mentally.
Word Forms
- noddles
- noddling
- noddled
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include noodle, necke, nodulus, nodule, nodularity, noggin.
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