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
“If you needs must knock your noddle, do so gently, I pray you.”
From Legends & Romances of Spain by Spence, Lewis
Oh how they doddle around her old noddle!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 October 7, 1893 by Various
Upon vich, the beak replies, a-shakin' of his vise noddle, 'Give it to the person in whose persession it was found.
From Auriol or, The Elixir of Life by Ainsworth, W. Harrison
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
The world—things generally—what interests you and me; what interests Uncle Amy and Mr. Perry; the buzzings in all our noddles.
From Otherwise Phyllis by Gibson, Charles Dana
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 Smiles, Samuel
The 'Orm' is one of those pig-headed people who get a notion into their precious noddles and need a surgical operation to get it out again.
From Loyal to the School by Brazil, Angela
