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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

Oh, hang it, Clytie, can’t you knock some sense into her silly noddle?

From The Red Derelict by Bertram Mitford

On his sister Jane approaching him, however, she perceived a drop of blood falling every second into the dirty water below, and exclaimed, "How hast thou broken thy noddle, Ned?"

From The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Maybe by the time you gets back, the old un’ll be awake, an’ ha’ his noddle clear enough to help us think o’ something.”

From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid

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

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

Myriads of night-capped noddles We must leave unexplored.

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

So you have," said she;—"nasty, slatternly girls, without an idea inside their noddles.

From He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope