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Noddy   Listen
noun
Noddy  n.  (pl. noddies)  
1.
A simpleton; a fool.
Synonyms: tomnoddy.
2.
(Zool.)
(a)
Any tern of the genus Anous, as Anous stolidus.
(b)
The arctic fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis). Sometimes also applied to other sea birds.
3.
An old game at cards.
4.
A small two-wheeled one-horse vehicle.
5.
An inverted pendulum consisting of a short vertical flat spring which supports a rod having a bob at the top; used for detecting and measuring slight horizontal vibrations of a body to which it is attached.






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"Noddy" Quotes from Famous Books



... place of an argument often. And stomachs go empty, and brains slowly soften, And sense sick with dizziness, All in the name of the bosh men embody In one clap-trap phrase that dupes many a noddy, ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., December 13, 1890 • Various

... trading watches with a farmer," remarked Jack Bedford. "What do you say, My Lord Tom-Noddy"—and he slapped Oliver on the back. The sobriquet was one of Jack's pet names for Oliver—all the Kennedy Square people were more or less aristocrats to Jack Bedford, the sign-painter— all ...
— The Fortunes of Oliver Horn • F. Hopkinson Smith

... author of it a shallow-brained puppy; and thus refers to it in his index: "Of a noddy who wrote a book ...
— Lives of the Poets, Vol. 1 • Samuel Johnson

... between a horse and a sheep. I divide the illogical—I mean people who have not that amount of natural use of sound inference which is really not uncommon—into three classes:—First class, three varieties: the Niddy, the Noddy, and the Noodle. Second class, three varieties: the Niddy-Noddy, the Niddy-Noodle, and the Noddy-Noodle. Third class, undivided: the Niddy-Noddy-Noodle. No person has a right to be angry with me for more than one of ...
— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) • Augustus de Morgan

... man laid down the boat-hook as quick as a flash. 'Now, men,' said the little ossifer, 'you'll see that we number at least ten, and there's only six of you. Ah, here's to make us a little more ekil;' and he just fired at a noddy that was flying over, and dropped him right into the stern-sheets. 'That'll help out our rations some,' says he; 'and besides, you don't see what I'm sittin' on;' and, sure enough, he had histed into the boat a basket of port an' a whole case of ...
— Adrift in the Ice-Fields • Charles W. Hall

... boobies flying very near to us we had the good fortune to catch one of them. This bird is as large as a duck: like the noddy it has received its name from seamen for suffering itself to be caught on the masts and yards of ships. They are the most presumptive proofs of being in the neighbourhood of land of any seafowl we are acquainted with. I directed the bird to be killed for supper, and ...
— A Voyage to the South Sea • William Bligh

... Norfolk, and shipped 'em to Orleens. Says I: 'I'll go back Eastern Shore way, and see if there's any niggers to git.' So I tramped it from Somers's Cove to Princess Anne, an' sluiced my gob at Kingston and the Trappe till I felt noddy with the booze, and lay down in the churchyard to snooze it off. Bein' awaked before my nod was out, I felt evil an' chiveyish, and the tavern blokes, an' the nigger, an' the feller with the steeple shap, all ...
— The Entailed Hat - Or, Patty Cannon's Times • George Alfred Townsend



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