noddy

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “I graunt for my parte by fayth of my body / why where the deuyll is this horeſon nody”

2. isim In full knave noddy: the jack or knave playing card.

   “The ſpout of ſport, and follies turtle Doue, / Noddie turn'd vp, all made, yet loſe the tricke.”

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

   “[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.”

4. isim Synonym of sexual intercourse.

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

5. sıfat Foolish, silly, stupid.

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

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

   “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, […]”

7. isim 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.”

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

   “[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.”

9. isim Synonym of fellatio.

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

10. isim Synonym of northern fulmar (“an Arctic seabird, Fulmarus glacialis”).
11. isim 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.

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

12. isim 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.
13. isim In at noddy: a state of being asleep.
14. sıfat Drowsy, sleepy.

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