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
For the life of you, you could not lead or drive such divine counsel into this conceited noddle of mine.
From The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by Mason Locke Weems
Oh, hang it, Clytie, can’t you knock some sense into her silly noddle?
From The Red Derelict by Bertram Mitford
Ods my life, this your tale makes my noddle buzz with amaze.
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang
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 '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 Angela Brazil
"Have they taken the notion of being virtuous, into their small noddles?"
From Uncle Titus and His Visit to the Country by Johanna Spyri
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
