noddle

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)

But one day he took it into his silly noddle that the elfin cow was getting old, and that he had better fatten her for the market.

From British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Sikes, Wirt

Oh how they doddle around her old noddle!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 October 7, 1893 by Various

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

But how have I put him under an unfortunate character? the authors of the Reflections, and our John-a-Nokes, have not laid their noddles together about this accusation.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Scott, Walter, Sir

Myriads of night-capped noddles We must leave unexplored.

From Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 98, January 4, 1890 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir

"Have they taken the notion of being virtuous, into their small noddles?"

From Uncle Titus and His Visit to the Country by Spyri, Johanna