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 James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

Why shakes his bells, Dobbin, His old noddle bobbing, As if there were strangers upon the green lea?

From The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

It called back a vision Of youth, and those girls of John Leech's, John Leech's, Of "corkscrews" that "doddle" all round a fair noddle, Blue eyes and flushed cheeks like ripe peaches, ripe peaches.

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