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
And in a few minutes a plentiful drenching from a water-butt at the door brought some glimmering of sense into the man's bruised noddle.
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang
The fact was, she had suddenly got the idea into her darling little noddle, and nothing in heaven or earth could turn her from her purpose.
From Tales From J?kai by M?r J?kai
"Miracle me no miracles," cried Sancho; "let every man take care how he talks, or how he writes of other men, and not set down at random, higgle-de-piggledy, whatever comes into his noddle."
From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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
If the folks here want their country to go ahead, they must honour the plough; and General Campbell ought to hammer that 'ere into their noddles, full chisel, as hard as he can drive.
From The Clockmaker Or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
But, no—for so humble a bard 'Tis a subject too trying to touch on; Such noblemen's names are too hard, And their noddles too soft to dwell much on.
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti
All your noddles in, All your noddles out, Shake all your noddles a little a little, And turn yourselves about.
From Rhymes Old and New : collected by M.E.S. Wright by M. E. S. Wright
