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

Maybe by the time you gets back, the old un’ll be awake, an’ ha’ his noddle clear enough to help us think o’ something.”

From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne

Butler introduces it in his ‘Hudibras’:—‘Quoth he, “My head’s not made of brass, as Friar Bacon’s noddle was.”’

From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport)

It called back a vision Of youth, and those girls of John Leech's, John Leech's, Of "corkscrews" that "doddle" all round a fair noddle, Blue eyes and flushed cheeks like ripe peaches, ripe peaches.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 October 7, 1893 by Various