Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A narrow, ribbonlike strip of dried dough, usually made of flour, eggs, and water.
- n. Slang The human head.
- n. Slang A weak, foolish, or stupid person.
- v. Slang To improvise music on an instrument in an idle, haphazard fashion.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A simpleton.
- n. Dough formed into long and thin narrow strips, or, sometimes, into other shapes, dried, and used in soup.
Wiktionary
- n. usually in plural A string or strip of pasta.
- n. colloquial A person with poor judgement; a fool.
- n. colloquial The brain, the head.
- n. colloquial A pool noodle.
- v. fishing To fish (usually for very large catfish) without any equipment other than the fisherman's own body
- v. To think or ponder.
- v. To fiddle, play with, or mess around.
- v. To improvise music.
- v. Australia To fossick, especially for opals.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Low A simpleton; a blockhead; a stupid person; a ninny.
- n. The head; also,
noddle ; -- used jocosely or contemptuously. - n. A thin strip of dough, made with eggs, rolled up, cut into small pieces, and used in soup.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a ribbonlike strip of pasta
- n. informal terms for a human head
Etymologies
- The sense "string of pasta" is from the German word Nudel; cognate to the Dutch noedel, Swedish nudel (the Flemish word noedel is also from German); of uncertain origin. The senses "fool" and "brain, head" are probably unrelated. (Wiktionary)
- German Nudel.Probably alteration of noddle.Imitative. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“We started off having lunch with Amanda's editor, the charming and talented Dongwon Song, at what he described as a noodle joint for homesick expat Japanese, which had thoroughly amazing restrooms.”
“And secondly, that one dude looks like his noodle is showing.”
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - This photo gives me two immediate concerns.
“On the surface The Eye of Jade is a classic detective fiction with lots of underworld contacts and hushed conversations in noodle bars, but underneath, Liang, who fled China after her involvement in the student protests in Tiananmen Square, is doing something much more than an examination of China old and new.”
The Eye of Jade: Summary and book reviews of The Eye of Jade by Diane Wei Liang.
“What really cooks my noodle is has it always been all screwed up, or is this a new thing?”
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Diary #112: “Bad BAD Radio!!!”
“It also had those crispy thin Japanese noodle things - you know, the ones that are used as toppings sometimes.”
“Soba (そば or 蕎麦, Soba) is a type of thin Japanese noodle made from buckwheat flour.”
WN.com - Articles related to Maharashtra urged to scrap permits for grain-based distilleries
“i think good ole jimmy's noodle is a little too soft for making assertions about racism ....”
“And for the ultimate artistic statement about ramen, you can watch the film Tanpopo Dandelion, the late Itami Juzo’s tour de force that he termed a noodle Western.”
“What really cooks my noodle are the few- VERY FEW- bureaucrats who do know the rules and why they're there.”
“Although Iran has not been a heavy consumer of noodles, it has an ancient history of noodle-making; indeed, there has been speculation that the Chinese learned the idea of noodle-making from the same Persian merchants who introduced the flour mill to them during the Han dynasty 206 BC-AD 220.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘noodle’.
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The Pasta Master
My favourite is potato
gnocchi,interesting that lists
devoted to pasta exclusively
missed pasta puttanesca,those who
really textually mine dictionaries
would not miss...trofie, torchio, sorprese lisce, strozzapreti, sorprese, rotini, ricciutelle, ricciolini, rotelle, radiatori, pipe, orecchiette and 391 more...
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Yazhinni Spelling bee
tongue, stallion, scruple, salinity, schedule, rouge, populist, Permian, perspire, pasteurize, multitude, mournful and 227 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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Noodle and such
noodle, ladle, middle, model, muddle, addle, paddle, piddle, dreidel, toddle, poodle, streudel and 16 more...
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A _____ walks into a bar...
horse, bear, termite, grasshopper, panda, cowboy, guy with a chunk ..., duck, talking dog, guy with a toad o..., guy, blind man and 74 more...
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head
words for head
( open list, randomness )
also see:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/mentally-irregularnoggin, gourd, brain, cranium, melon, skull, upstairs, attic, crown, roof, mind, plosive and 15 more...
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Insult Words
A rich collection of all the ways you can insult someone's intelligence.
nincompoop, dimwit, moron, cretin, idiot, meathead, dingbat, nerd, loony, fool, dunce, lamebrain and 31 more...
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VVCle
Look at the list for examples
doodle, google, beetle, sheeple, steeple, poodle, noodle, needle, feeble, bamboozle, rootle, creeple and 11 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 1972 more... -
Words that Sound Wrong if You Say The...
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Foodie
As much fun to say as they are to eat.
blueberry, cider, almond, apricot, asparagus, banana, fudge, foldover, flapjacks, filbert, fig, biscuit and 217 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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Words I like
This is a list of my favourite words (phrases) in english, as a second language. I love them mostly because of how they sound and their meaning.
ninja, cookie, skill, zip, plentiful, digg, debris, pancake, cucumber, fetch, pot, backpack and 461 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 more...
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Time for a new list!
abrupt, erupt, rupture, sync, appropinquity, heterochromia, homochromatic, monochromatic, willy nilly, nitty gritty, kowtow, wonton and 455 more...
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Mary and Max (2009)
Words from 2009 'Mary and Max' film.
muddy, puddle, birthmark, piggyback, pensive, gumnut, pompom, salvage, takeaway, oven, shed, deliberate and 112 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for noodle.
treeseed See also pool noodle Feb 6, 2008