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
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
I looked my last around, and woke up with a toss of my noddle against the back of the seat.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by John Augustus O'Shea
And please get it into your noddle that I have no intention of becoming your rival for her hand.
From The Siege of the Seven Suitors by Meredith Nicholson
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
In the hot-house of your noddles Are some plants called art and science, And you even brag of such weeds.
From The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. by Joseph Victor von Scheffel
He had an almost equal aversion for what he called the "fiddle-faddle inventors," with their omnibus patents, into which they packed every possible thing that their noddles could imagine.
From Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers by Samuel Smiles
And coarse-grained is their whole nature; But within their square-built noddles Lie rich stores of clever cunning.
From The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. by Joseph Victor von Scheffel
