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

The devil knows, whether he is going to the Swedes; the devil knows what may flash into Kmita's wild noddle.

From The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

Why shakes his bells, Dobbin, His old noddle bobbing, As if there were strangers upon the green lea?

From The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

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