noddle
/ˈnɑd l/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.52 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The head; the part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs.
British usage; Informal
verb
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."
- "Shell after shell did they empty, and to Jack's exceeding surprise, he found the drink never got into his head, owing, I suppose, to the sea being over them, which kept their noddles cool."
- "They muste absteine from ouer much slepe, and not to slepe in the day time, nor [upon] the noddle of the head […]"
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈnɑd l/
- British English: /ˈnɒdəl/
Usage
- British usage
- Informal
- Obsolete
- Intransitive verb