noddy

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Niddy-noddy, 200-201; carved, 320.

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  1. noun A dunce or fool; a simpleton.
  2. noun Any of several terns of the genera Anous and Micranous, found in tropical waters and having a dark brown or black color with a white or gray head.

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  • 'I hope getting published isn't going to turn you precious Piss off, noddy,' said Ellie, grinning. —  Reginald Hill
  • My hubby works with wood … I was tired of pouting so I went out and bought my niddy-noddy, sort of like the plumbers wife! —  WordPress.com News
  • But still, after I'd wound it off on the niddy-noddy, the relaxed skeins still looked like something I'd be afraid to bother knitting with. —  The Heathen Housewife
  • We took it off the bobbin, wound it up on a niddy noddy (love the spinning terminology!), washed it and voila! —  Bellsknits
  • This is fortunately preserved in an every-day domestic riddle Niddy-noddy, niddy-noddy Two heads and one body The three pieces of these niddy-noddys were set together at curious angles, and are here shown rather than described in words. —  Home Life in Colonial Days
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  1. Perhaps from obsolete noddy, foolish, possibly from nod.

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  1. Prob. from nod + -y, as if ‘sleepy-head’; cf. noddy-poll. Cf. also noddle.
  2. from noddy, n.
  3. from nod+ -y. Cf. noddy.
 

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