noddy

A silly or stupid person; a fool, an idiot.archaiccountable

• I graunt for my parte by fayth of my body / why where the deuyll is this horeſon nody
• Hum[phrey]. If it be ſo, my friend, you vſe me fine, / VVhat do you thinke I am? / Iasp[er]. An arrant noddie / Hum. A vvord of obliquie, novv by Gods bodie, / I'le tell thy maiſter for I knovv thee vvell.

In full knave noddy: the jack or knave playing card.countablehistorical

• The ſpout of ſport, and follies turtle Doue, / Noddie turn'd vp, all made, yet loſe the tricke.
• You vvant four, and I tvvo, and my Deal: Novv, Knave noddy—no, Hearts be Trumps.

In full noddy-fifteen: a certain card game related to cribbage.historicaluncountable

• [W]ell let not me take you at Noddy anie more, leaſt I preſent you to the pariſh for a gamſter, this is the ninth ſet that you haue loſt, and yet you will not leaue off.
• [H]e told me he had him at command when he was a page, but by plaieing to [too] much at primeroe and noddy he loſt Time and his monie to [too].

In full noddy-fifteen: a certain card game related to cribbage.; Synonym of sexual intercourse.broadlycountablehistorical

• I left her at Cardes, ſhee'll ſit vp till you come, becauſe ſhee'll haue you play a game at Noddie; […]

Foolish, silly, stupid.Englandregional

• For that no man shulde se / Nor rede in any scrolles / Of theyr dronken nolles, / Nor of theyr noddy polles, […]

Synonym of noddify (“to make (someone) into a noddy (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1), to make a fool of”)obsoleteraretransitive

• If ſuch an Aſſe be noddied for the nonce, / I ſay but this, to helpe his Idle fit; / Let him but thanke himſelfe for lacke of VVit, […]

Any of several stout-bodied, gregarious terns of the genus Anous found in tropical seas, especially the brown noddy or common noddy (Anous stolidus).

• The Rocks and outer Lines of the Iſland, are the Haunts of variety of Sea-Birds, eſpecially Boobies and Noddies; […] The Noddies are ſmaller and flat footed alſo.
• At length they caught two boobies, and a noddy, / And then they left off eating the dead body.

A small two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse.IrelandScotlandhistorical

• [S]he has brought over a nevv language vvith her. […] VVhy a new kind of a London Engliſh, that's no more like our Iriſh Engliſh, than a coxcomb's fine gilded chariot like a Glaſſmanogue [i.e., Phibsborough, Dublin] noddy.
• Down there Emmet was hanged, drawn and quartered. Greasy black rope. Dogs licking the blood off the street when the lord lieutenant's wife drove by in her noddy.

Synonym of fellatio.Multicultural-London-Englishslang

• Bakin' off of this light skin hottie / Sweet ting, arch ya up and give noddy

Synonym of northern fulmar (“an Arctic seabird, Fulmarus glacialis”).NewfoundlandNortheasternUS

A cutaway scene of a television interviewer nodding at the person being interviewed (or sometimes the interviewee nodding at the interviewer), often used to cover an editing gap in an interview.UKinformal

• Noddies are often filmed after the interview in question has finished.

In clockmaking and watchmaking: an inverted pendulum consisting of a short, vertical, flat spring which supports a rod having a bob at the top, which is used for detecting and measuring slight horizontal vibrations of a body to which it is attached.obsolete

• The elegant inverted Pendulum or Noddy contrived by the late Mr Hardy, suggested to me a different arrangement. […] It is evident that, by adjusting the stiffness of the wire, or the height of the ball C, we may alter to any extent the rela

In at noddy: a state of being asleep.obsoleterare

• In Paternoſter-rovv, vve found a fellovv at nodie upon a ſtall, vvith his Lanthorn and Candle by him, having firſt ſeized on that, and throvvn it into the Kennel, vve proſecuted our abuſe by falling upon him, and beating him. […] [T]o our c

Drowsy, sleepy.archaic

• […] I'll say a prayer and try to go to sleep. I feel very noddy all at once.