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▪ I. noddy, n.1|ˈnɒdɪ|
Forms: 6–7 nody, -dye, 6–7 -die; 6–7 noddie, 7 -dye; 6– noddy.
[Of obscure origin; perh. a n. use of noddy a.1]
1. A fool, simpleton, noodle.
a1530J. Heywood Love (Brandl) 798 Why, where the deuyll is this horeson nody? 1550Bale Apol. 30 b, O beastly nody wythoute brayne. 1580Lupton Sivquila 14 Mighte not he bee counted a verye noddy, that woulde pay suche a fine for a Farme? 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iv. iv, Soft fellows, stark noddies, and such as were foolish. 1648Gage West Ind. 101 In his carriage and experience in the World a simple noddy. 1682N. O. tr. Boileau's Lutrin iii. 94 And there they sneaking stand like baffled Noddies. 1705Hickeringill Priest-cr. ii. iii. 36 The cringing old Noddies and Cathedral-Men, that adore unlighted Candles at the Altar. 1794Wolcot (P. Pindar) Sun & Peacock Wks. 1812 III. 265 To credit such a tale I'm not the noddy. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. vii, To think that I should be such a noddy! 1871B. Taylor Faust (1875) I. xxii. 197 A gray and wrinkled noddy.
2. A soot-coloured sea-bird (Anous stolidus) of tropical regions, having the figure of a tern, but with shorter wings and tail less forked.
1578Best Frobisher's Voy. iii. (Hakl. Soc.) 232 Certayne fowles, as wylmots, nodies, gulles, etc., which there seeme only to live by sea. 1670Narborough Jrnl. in Acc. Sev. Late Voy. i. 16 Small Sea-Fowls, call'd Black Nodies, flying to and fro. 1697W. Dampier Voy. (1699) 53 The Noddy is a small black Bird, about the bigness of the English Black⁓bird. 1707Sloane Jamaica I. 31 We had also Boobies.., as well as Noddies..; they are so called by Seamen,..because they suffer themselves to be catch'd by the Hand. 1777G. Forster Voy. round World I. 550 Shearwaters, terns, noddies, gannets,..appeared numerous about us. 1819Byron Juan ii. lxxxii, At length they caught two boobies, and a noddy. 1842Penny Cycl. XXIV. 233/1 The Noddies may be distinguished from the other Sea-Swallows. Their tail is not forked. 1880Q. Rev. Jan. 202 The noddies were torn in pieces and swallowed raw as they were caught.
attrib.1703W. Dampier Voy. III. 142 We also saw some Boobies, and Noddy-birds. 1707Sloane Jamaica I. 31 The Noddy Bird was Eleven Inches long from the end of the Bill to that of the Tail.
▪ II. noddy, n.2|ˈnɒdɪ|
Also 7 noddie.
[Of obscure origin: connexion with prec. is not clear.]
1. A card game resembling cribbage (see quot. 1688). Also noddy-fifteen. Now rare.
1589[? Nashe] Almond for Parrat 52 Let not me take you at noddy anie more, least I present you to the parish for a gamster. 1602Middleton Blurt, Master-Constable iii. ii, She'll sit up till you come, because she'll have you play a game at noddy. c1610J. Day Peregr. Schol. (1881) 77 By plaieing to much at primeroe and noddy he lost Time and his monie to. 1688Holme Armoury iii. xvi. (Roxb.) 72/2 The principall games at cards..8. Noddy, and Cribbidge-Noddy. 2 or 4 persons may play at it, 61 being vp, Each person hath 3 cards and one turned vp to which he makes as many casts as he can. c1780in Gilpin Pop. Poet. Cumbld. (1875) 68 She..lost nineteen-pence at noddy. 1823E. Moor Suffolk Words s.v., We have also..a game called noddy, the same, I believe, which we call niddy-noddy; another name of which is the Lord Mayor of Coventry. 1828Craven Gloss., Noddy-fifteen, a game at cards. 1875Encycl. Brit. VI. 575/2 Cribbage seems to be an improved form of noddy.
†2. The knave in various card games. Also knave noddy. Obs.
1611Vadianus' Paneg. Verses in Coryat Crudities, Noddie turn'd up, all made, yet lose the tricke. 1680Cotton Compl. Gamester (ed. 2) 76 If you have a knave of that suit which is turned up, it is knave Noddy. 1757Foote Author ii. Wks. 1799 I. 147 You want four, and I two, and my deal: Now, knave noddy—no, hearts be trumps. 1799Spirit Public Jrnls. II. 14 A noddy, the reader will observe, has two significations—the one, a Knave at all-fours, the other a fool, or Booby.
▪ III. noddy, n.3|ˈnɒdɪ|
[Possibly f. nod v.]
1. A light two-wheeled hackney-carriage, formerly used in Ireland and Scotland (see quots.).
1767Bush Hiber. (1769) 23 They have an odd kind of hacknies here, that is called the Noddy. 1776R. Twiss Tour Irel. 28 There are many single-horse two wheeled chaises, which constantly ply in the streets in Dublin; they are called noddies. 1825J. Weddell Voy. 220 A conveyance was provided such as by us is called a noddy, having but two wheels and being drawn by two horses abreast, on one of which rode the driver. 1844W. H. Maxwell Sports & Adv. Scotl. ii. (1855) 31 A vehicle, which in Scotland..is called a noddy. 1889Tait Two Cent. of Border Ch. Life 288 The noddy was a rather cumbrous looking box set on two wheels, entered by a door in the rear, and with a seat for the driver in front.
Comb.1843W. White Jrnls. (1898) 44 The noddy⁓drivers were equally noisy..in making their wants known.
2. An inverted pendulum fitted with a spring which tends to restore it to a vertical position.
1846Mallet in Trans. R. Irish Acad. (1848) XXI. 107 They [instruments] have been upon the principle of the inverted pendulum or watchmaker's noddy.
Add:3. slang. Usu. with capital initial. a. Noddy bike, a lightweight motorcycle used by police officers on patrol duty before the introduction of panda cars.
1964in Hamblett & Deverson Generation X 162 We got down the road and a Lawman came up on a Noddy bike (Vesper [sic]). 1984P. Beale Partridge's Dict. Slang (ed. 8) 800/1 Noddy-bike, the L. E. Velocette light motorcycle used by the police for general use before the introduction of ‘panda cars’. 1988P. Howard Winged Words 42 Community policing, the contradiction in terms which tries to square riot shields and baton rounds with memories of the golden age of Noddy bikes, Panda cars, and bobbies on the beat.
b. = *Noddy bike above; hence, a police officer who rides such a motorcycle.
1970P. Laurie Scotland Yard 292 Noddy, the lightweight silent motorcycle issued to beat men in the suburbs, so called because their riders cannot safely salute. When they were new, a legendary old sergeant, aggrieved at this lack of respect, growled: ‘Well then boy, when you see me, nod your head.’ 1972Police Rev. 10 Nov. 1465/1 Making its debut appearance yesterday was the probable successor to the Noddy. 1980Amer. Speech 1976 LI. 288 Motorcycle policeman..noddy.
▪ IV. † ˈnoddy, n.4 Obs. rare—1.
[f. nod v.; prob. suggested by noddy n.2]
at noddy, nodding, napping, asleep.
1665R. Head Engl. Rogue (Pearson) I. 110 In Paternoster-row we found a fellow at noddie upon a stall, with his Lanthorne and Candle by him.
▪ V. ˈnoddy, n.6 Cinematogr. and Television slang.
Also noddie.
[f. nod v. or n.1; cf. noddy n.3]
A brief shot in which the interviewer (or interviewee) is filmed listening or nodding in agreement, usu. recorded after the main interview and edited to form part of it; also, the action captured by such a shot. Usu. in pl. Also attrib., as noddy-shot.
1982Observer 12 Dec. 26/1 Those shots of the interviewer agreeing with the interviewee (which as everyone knows are filmed after the interview) are called ‘noddies’. 1985Listener 16 May 31/2 This form of TV has the basic features of actuality coverage:..the voice-over confident of its terms and values, the articulate subject with a point of view, the besuited interviewer performing ‘noddies’. 1985D. May in D. J. Enright Fair of Speech 132 These [shots] are known as ‘noddies’, a word delightful both for its nursery air and for its sharp observation of the sage nods that participants in television discussions are inclined to give if they think the cameras are on them. 1986Financial Times 5 Dec. 25/8 Talk of establishing shots, eye-lines and noddy-shots touched tantalisingly on the graft (beside the craft) of television.
▪ VI. † ˈnoddy, a.1 Obs. rare.
[Of obscure origin; perh. f. nod v. Cf. noddy n.1]
Foolish, silly.
a1529Skelton Col. Cloute 1245 That no man shulde se Nor rede in any scrolles Of theyr dronken nolles, Nor of theyr noddy polles. 1645E. Pagitt Heresiogr. (1661) 60 Ignorant Idiots, noddy Nabalites. 1648British Bellman 6 You present us with an inane nihil, a new Directory of a noddy Synod.
▪ VII. ˈnoddy, a.2
[f. nod v.]
Drowsy, sleepy.
a1864Hawthorne S. Felton (1883) 351 I'll..try to go to sleep. I feel very noddy all at once.
▪ VIII. † ˈnoddy, v. Obs. rare—1.
[f. noddy n.1]
trans. To make a fool of.
1600Breton Pasquils Fooles-cappe lxxvii, If such an Asse be noddied for the nonce,..Let him but thanke himselfe for lacke of Wit. |