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niddy-noddy, v., adv., and n.|ˈnɪdɪˈnɒdɪ|
[alt. f. prec.]
a. v. = prec.b. adv. to and fro, unsteadily.
1866Carlyle Remin. (1881) I. 324 The little phantasm of a creature—Sloane his name—who went niddy-noddying with his head. 1877W. Watson Poems 38 Ere we're half gate wi' our life, Our head plays niddy noddy.
c. A frame on which to skein and measure wool yarn.
1890G. S. Hall in Proc. Amer. Antiquarian Soc. VII. 111 It was taken from the spindle sometimes on a niddy-noddy held in the hand, at two rounds per yard, but more commonly on a reel, in rounds of two yards each. 1927M. N. Rawson Candle Days ii. 28 The graceful ‘swifts’, the ‘niddy noddy’, or hand reels, was also of home construction in wood. 1968Beaver Winter 43/1 A cross between the hand looms..has been found practical, as has been..the English niddy-noddy and butterfly yarn winders. 1969E. H. Pinto Treen 318 The earlier device, which was in general use..was the cross reel, in English speaking countries almost universally known as a niddy-noddy. Ibid., The niddy-noddy, which was held in one hand by the central stem, was wound with a waving motion, to the rhythm of a song, the opening line of which ran, ‘Niddy-noddy, niddy-noddy, two heads and one body.’ |