Meaning of wet noodle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A noodle that is freshly made, before it dries out and becomes rigid.
2. A means of enacting a mild or ineffective symbolic punishment.
3. A wimp.
4. Someone or something that is limp, relaxed, or weak.
5. A man with erectile dysfunction.
   slang
6. A flaccid penis.
   slang
7. A weak handshake.

Examples

“I think I understand police states and things like that. They are not intimidated by being whipped with a wet noodle, and Jackson-Vanik is a wet noodle.”

“The wet noodle punishment argument is that it is in practice impossible to punish, e.g., a committed rape with beating the offender with a wet noodle.”

““Yeah, if they get out of line, I'll beat 'em with a wet noodle!” Mark chuckles.”

“If you think your brand isn't important, you need to hit yourself with a wet noodle and then crack open this book.”

“There, I said it, but we'll get out the wet noodle later.”

“I am a wet noodle, she had said sadly to Sister Albertine.”

“He claimed to be an old army paratrooper, but talked like a social working wet noodle.”

“They may be just a "wet noodle" who has had some negative experiences in the conventional business world that caused them to be defensive in their attitude.”

“Mr. Masters was a little bit of a wet noodle during their last trip.”

“Lord Dr. Roland Remington Esquire JD PhD was a limp wet noodle of a man who seemed to be an identical twin as the character “smiling Bob” from the iconic Extenze male enhancement television commercials.”

“Because I, on the other hand, am pretty much a wet noodle who moonlights as a peacemaker.”

“A day in the water in any weather need not turn you into a cold, wet noodle if you suit up in the proper attire.”

“I wouldn't go as far as Robert Samuelson did in Newsweek in referring to your plan as a wet noodle. It seems that somewhere between a wet noodle and bold new initiative, we might have reality.”

“If you're trying to control that wet noodle, there's got to be a lot of intelligence behind it in the way of microchips actually out there doing the controlling."”

“As he said “hands,” Hardy hit the boy with a pile-driving right that turned him into a wet noodle.”

“There are few people who know which buttons to push on which meridians to render you a wet noodle, and Ivan is one of them.”

“All at once she realized that the axis she had been clinging to like a buoy in the ocean was nothing more than a wet noodle.”

“The stiffer parts carry more of the load, whereas a wet noodle would carry none.”

“As Stoller says, "perversion is a sturdy word, throbbing with assumptions, while paraphilia is a wet noodle."”

“He reaches for my hand and runs his finger across my palm. My spine turns into a wet noodle and I grab for his hand.”

“"Don't drink too much tonight. You know what happens when you drink too much." She lowered her voice. "You become a wet noodle."”

“"A real wet noodle — I wouldn't have had him on a bet," Maxine sniffed.”

“Debbie and I would speak on the phone at least once a day. She made oblique inquiries into how I was feeling sexually, which I brushed off with a few poorly chosen jokes. Looking back, this joking around was a good way to deflect my fears. Call this the wet noodle phase.”

“I'm sorry to have become the wet noodle after dinner last night ... especially after your dance for me. I will make amends this evening.”

“TONO: A wet noodle. That's the explanation I gave to the desk clerk for having to leave in such a hurry. (He laughs.) A wet noodle. (He makes the gesture with a flaccid finger.) Oh, Jesus, and the guy understood.”

“Today, she calls her state of sexual boredom chronic and puts the blame for it on liberated men. “They've gotten so ... There's this little wet noodle—this little nothing, you know—flapping around between my legs.”

“Warm pleasure replaced cold pain and I looked down at myself... two shriveled up prunes and a wet noodle.”

“Stinking bastards, think they are such lovers. Half drunk and half hard. They got a wet noodle they want to stick in you.””

“A good solid handshake tells it all. Beware of the "wet noodle" handshake, which conveys a weak and unsure character, or using both hands, such as the "politician's handshake" or the "glove," using both hands around your hand.”

“Clearly the "wet noodle" handshake will not conquer the world and the "knuckle grinder" will not win friends.”

“On the contrary, anyone who has been on the receiving end of the proverbial “wet noodle” handshake also knows what I am talking about.”

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