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Noll   Listen
noun
Noll  n.  The head; the noodle. (Obs.)
Synonyms: noddle, noggin.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Noll" Quotes from Famous Books



... on a pinch, Master Bridgenorth," said old Whitaker; "sure enough you have often acted upon a worse yourself. My lady's word is as good as a warrant, sure, as Old Noll's commission; and you bore that many a day, Master Bridgenorth, and, moreover, you laid me in the stocks for drinking the King's health, Master Bridgenorth, and never cared a farthing about the ...
— Peveril of the Peak • Sir Walter Scott

... ways of conveying a prejudice. Warts? Well, there, at any rate, we have the advantage of old Noll." The Collector, whose sense of hearing was acute and fastidious, broke off with a sharp arching of the eyebrows and a glance up at the ceiling, or rather (since ceiling there was none) at the oaken ...
— Lady Good-for-Nothing • A. T. Quiller-Couch

... For I should never be able to stand Noll's jokes; so I'd have him think that we are a ...
— The School For Scandal • Richard Brinsley Sheridan

... extravagant and outrageous. He out-puritans the Puritans; he is more fanatic than his idol; he has chosen to express himself with such a righteous truculence, such a sanguinary zeal, such a pious contempt for human virtue and human sympathies, as would have startled Old Noll himself. It is a bad religion this hero-worship—at least as practised by Mr Carlyle. Here is our amiable countryman rendered by it, in turn, a terrorist and a fanatic. All his own intellectual culture he throws down and abandons. Such dire transformation ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 • Various



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