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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

To be seen with a square of green silk round mee ould noddle!

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

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 W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

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 Henryk Sienkiewicz

Loyalists subsequently fired back with their own revamp, mocking the patriots: “Come shake your dull noddles, ye pumpkins and bawl, and own that you’re mad at fair liberty’s call.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2017

Ms. Sarikaya laughed and then the two of them discussed whether to blanch noodles before saucing them; Ms. Olsen prefers a quick boil, while Ms. Sarikaya worries that it will leave the noddles too watery.

From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2017

There were sundry nods of the grave noddles assembled about the table.

From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Sir Hall Caine

Look here," said the narrator, "don't get it into your precious noddles that this Territory's the only flat country under the sun.

From The Plow-Woman by Eleanor Gates

You don't know what the smallest of them have in their noddles.

From The Corner House Girls Growing Up What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended by Grace Brooks Hill