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
But one day he took it into his silly noddle that the elfin cow was getting old, and that he had better fatten her for the market.
From British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes
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
I looked my last around, and woke up with a toss of my noddle against the back of the seat.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by John Augustus O'Shea
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
"Have they taken the notion of being virtuous, into their small noddles?"
From Uncle Titus and His Visit to the Country by Johanna Spyri
The silly geese now got it through their noddles that there was danger about, and every night thereafter came close up to the house to roost.
From Winter Sunshine by John Burroughs
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
