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
"Ay, ay!" says the juryman, shaking his noddle.
From Ever Heard This? Over Three Hundred Good Stories by F. W. Chambers
Oh, I shall have to drive it into his noddle by force, I see!
From 813 by Maurice Leblanc
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
Myriads of night-capped noddles We must leave unexplored.
From Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 98, January 4, 1890 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
This was the match that started fire in the thrifty noddles of Tinkletown's best citizens.
From The Daughter of Anderson Crow by George Barr McCutcheon
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
