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noun ˈnɒd(ə)lˈnɑdl dated, informal A person's head. 〈非正式,旧〉人头,首级 Example sentencesExamples - If you haven't got a spare battery and you need to use your notebook during that week, you'll have to use your noddle or go back to good old fashioned paper and pen.
- Years later Whitman dismissed Harlan gently: ‘He was only a fool: there was only a dim light in his noddle.’
- Surely he won't be able to talk his way out of it because all the evidence needed to prosecute is on film, if the police use their noddle.
- What everyone can do against such a spying network: use your noddle and encrypt your emails.
- And why doesn't it use its noddle and insist on fewer and simpler pricing mechanisms rather than behave like the gullible teenager all the time?
Synonyms fool, simpleton, innocent, dupe, gull
OriginLate Middle English (denoting the back of the head): of unknown origin. Rhymescoddle, doddle, model, swaddle, toddle, twaddle, waddle verb ˈnɒd(ə)lˈnɑdl [with object]archaic, informal Nod or wag (one's head). 〈古,非正式〉点(头);摇(头) Example sentencesExamples - He smiled and said maybe as he noddled his head.
- Since I'm slightly ahead of you in the game with a 5 week old and a 21 month old, I having been noddling my head vigorously throughout this post.
- The shop keeper noddled his head to welcome his customer.
- ‘Yeah I had fun too,’ Chad replied, noddling his head grinning from ear to ear.
OriginMid 18th century: frequentative of the verb nod. nounˈnɑdlˈnädl dated, informal A person's head. 〈非正式,旧〉人头,首级 Example sentencesExamples - And why doesn't it use its noddle and insist on fewer and simpler pricing mechanisms rather than behave like the gullible teenager all the time?
- What everyone can do against such a spying network: use your noddle and encrypt your emails.
- If you haven't got a spare battery and you need to use your notebook during that week, you'll have to use your noddle or go back to good old fashioned paper and pen.
- Years later Whitman dismissed Harlan gently: ‘He was only a fool: there was only a dim light in his noddle.’
- Surely he won't be able to talk his way out of it because all the evidence needed to prosecute is on film, if the police use their noddle.
Synonyms fool, simpleton, innocent, dupe, gull
OriginLate Middle English (denoting the back of the head): of unknown origin. verbˈnädlˈnɑdl [with object]informal, archaic Nod or wag (one's head). 〈古,非正式〉点(头);摇(头) Example sentencesExamples - The shop keeper noddled his head to welcome his customer.
- He smiled and said maybe as he noddled his head.
- ‘Yeah I had fun too,’ Chad replied, noddling his head grinning from ear to ear.
- Since I'm slightly ahead of you in the game with a 5 week old and a 21 month old, I having been noddling my head vigorously throughout this post.
OriginMid 18th century: frequentative of the verb nod. |