noddle

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BST15:57 54 min Martin O’Neill is doing his noddle on the touchline as Glick comes around the wrong side of the ball and hooks Long’s knee with his.

From The Guardian • Oct. 11, 2015

But the old man was tired and muddled with his backsight, and dreams were in his noddle.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Butler introduces it in his ‘Hudibras’:—‘Quoth he, “My head’s not made of brass, as Friar Bacon’s noddle was.”’

From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport)

The devil knows, whether he is going to the Swedes; the devil knows what may flash into Kmita's wild noddle.

From The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

Well, madam, I'll take one turn here in the Piazzas; a thousand things are hammering in this head; 'tis a fruitful noddle, though I say it.

From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by Dryden, John