noodle
/ˈnu.dəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.42 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "She slurped a long noodle up out of her soup."
- "She is cooking noodles for dinner."
- "He settled for the noodles and then after watching The Jungle Book twice on video it was time for beddy-bys."
- "One brought two boxes of instant mami noodles."
- "Laura told me the names of all the actors and actreſſes as they preſented themſelves; and, not contented vvith this, the ſatyrical baggage deſcrib'd their characters nicely, as they appeared. "This here (ſaid ſhe) is a noodle—That fellovv is a brute:[…].""
- "You vvrong me, noodle (boxes his ears). Novv then to the point."
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch noedel (“noodle”), or from its etymon German Nudel (“piece of pasta, noodle”); further etymology uncertain, probably a variant of Knödel (“dumpling”), from Middle High German knödel (“dumpling; small knot”), and then either: * from knode, knote (“knot”) (from Old High German knodo, knoto (“knot”), perhaps ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *knappō (“knob; boy”)) + -el (diminutive suffix); or * from Ladin menùdli (“small dough dumpling in soup”), probably from Latin minutulus (“very small, tiny”) (in the sense of food chopped into small pieces), a diminutive of minūtus (“diminished; having been diminished”), the perfect passive participle of minuō (“to make smaller, diminish, lessen, reduce”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“little, small”). Cognates * French nouille, noudle, nudeln * Swedish nudel
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *mey-, noedel, Nudel, knödel, knodo, *knappō
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈnu.dəl/
- British English: [ˈnuː.dl̩]
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Food.