Meaning of noddle | Babel Free
Definitions
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The head; the part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs. UK, informal
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The head as the seat of mental capacity or intellect. UK, informal
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The back of the head; nape. obsolete
Examples
“But being restored to the open aire, the cafe with him was little altred; for no roofe had he to hide his noddle in, or whither he might go to set up his rest, but in the streets under a bulk he should have been constrainted to have kenneld […]”
“No doubt (said the Barber) but I wonder not so much at the Knights madnesse, as the Squires simplicity, that beleeves so in the Islands, and I think all the Art in the world will not drive that out of his noddle.”
“Thus far the Poet; but his brains grow Addle, / And all the reſt is purely from this Noddle.”
“Novv vvhat can have got into that precious noddle of thine, my dear brother Toby? cried my father, mentally.”
“They muste absteine from ouer much slepe, and not to slepe in the day time, nor [upon] the noddle of the head […]”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.