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ˈnoodleism
[f. noodle n.1 + -ism.]
1. Silliness, stupidity.
1831Examiner 562/2 Written in a congenial strain of noodleism. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xxi. v. (1872) X. 90 Some gleams of Kinghood for us under Marlborough: —after whom Noodleism and Somnambulism.
2. A silly action or idea.
1829Examiner 145/2 Lord Eldon..rose to disavow participation in such extreme noodleisms. 1834Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. III. 55 It is manifestly an old-wifery, a noodleism, and all the world for fifty years has held it so. |