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noddle

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nod·dle  (ndl)
n.
The head.
[Middle English noddel, back of the head, perhaps from Latin ndulus, lump, knob; see nodule.]
noddle1
n
Informal chiefly Brit the head or brains use your noddle!
[origin obscure]
noddle2
vb
Informal chiefly Brit to nod (the head), as through drowsiness
[from nod]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.noddle - an informal British expression for head or mind; "use your noddle"
mind, psyche, nous, brain, head - that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason; "his mind wandered"; "I couldn't get his words out of my head"
Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
Translations
noddle [ˈnɒdl] N → mollera f, coco m
noddle
n (Brit inf: = head) → Dez m (inf), → Schädel m (inf)
noddle [ˈnɒd/əl] n (old) (fam) → zucca (testa)
use your noddle! → usa il cervello!
noddle [ˈnɒd/əl] n (old) (fam) → zucca (testa)
use your noddle! → usa il cervello!


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For occasion (as it is in the common verse) turneth a bald noddle, after she hath presented her locks in front, and no hold taken; or at least turneth the handle of the bottle, first to be received, and after the belly, which is hard to clasp.
The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context
Well, I have no objection to your contemplating Hetty in an artistic light, but I must not have you feeding her vanity and filling her little noddle with the notion that she's a great beauty, attractive to fine gentlemen, or you will spoil her for a poor man's wife--honest Craig's, for example, whom I have seen bestowing soft glances on her.
Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context
To a friend he writes, "As for the house and the poem, there are twelve masons hammering at the one, and one poor noddle at the other--so they are both in progress.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
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