Noddy

Quick meaning: Noddy is a noun meaning (countable, archaic) A silly or stupid person; a fool, an idiot.

Meaning

(countable, archaic) A silly or stupid person; a fool, an idiot.

More Meanings

1. In full knave noddy: the jack or knave playing card.
2. In full noddy-fifteen: a certain card game related to cribbage.
3. (England, regional) Foolish, silly, stupid.
4. (transitive, obsolete, rare) Synonym of noddify (“to make (someone) into a noddy (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1), to make a fool of”)
5. (Ireland, Scotland, road transport, historical) A small two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse.
6. (MLE, slang) Synonym of fellatio.
7. Any of several stout-bodied, gregarious terns of the genus Anous found in tropical seas, especially the brown noddy or common noddy (Anous stolidus).

Example Sentences

VVhy, vvhat a noddy have I been, to take this ſtrapper alvvays for a girl!

I graunt for my parte by fayth of my body / why where the deuyll is this horeſon nody

The ſpout of ſport, and follies turtle Doue, / Noddie turn'd vp, all made, yet loſe the tricke.

At last 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[…]"

Word Forms

• noddies
• noddying
• noddied

Synonyms for noddy

Depending on context, synonyms include addle-brain, addlehead, airhead, baboon, beanbrain, beetlebrain.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include terns, neddy, nuffy, nitwit, nuthead, stupid-head.

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