niddy-noddyn.adj.adv.

Brit.

/ˈnɪdɪˌnɒdi/, U.S.

/ˈˌnɪdiˈˌnɑdi/

Forms: 1600s niddie noddie, 1700s– niddy-noddy.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymon: nod v.

Etymology: Reduplication (with vowel variation and suffixation: compare -y suffix¹) of nod v.In sense A. 2 probably a reduplication with vowel variation of noddy n.¹ In quot. 1653 at sense A. 1 translating French nicquenocque (1532 in Rabelais in the passage translated).

A. n. (and adj.)

†1. A nodding movement of the head, esp. one indicative of drowsiness. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun] > nodding in sleep

nodding1548

nutation1612

niddy-noddy1653

1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. vii. 41 The push-forward of the Alchimists, The niddie noddie of the sachel-loaded seekers.

1805 J. Robertson Dr. Last, Sole & Body Mender in Coll. Comic Songs 41 Make a mortar of the stew-tub—mix sal salpolyrrist and rhubarb, As a medicine for the palsy, niddy noddy.

1808 W. Watson Poems (1877) 32 Countra bodies, Wha, tentless o' yer niddy noddies, Yer squints, an' scrapes, an' how-d'ye-do's, Tell owre their min', an' tak' their booze.

1887 W. Allingham Rhymes for Young Folk 54 Do all your sleeping at night, For then niddy-noddy is right.

2. An idiot, a fool; a grotesque image. Also as adj.: stupid. English regional in later use.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adjective]

sloweOE

stuntc960

dullOE

hardOE

stuntlyc1000

sotc1050

dillc1175

dulta1225

simplea1325

heavy1340

astonedc1374

sheepishc1380

dull-witteda1387

lourd1390

steerishc1411

ass-likea1425

brainless?a1439

deafc1440

sluggishc1450

short-witted1477

obtuse1509

peakish1519

wearish1519

deaf, or dumb as a beetle1520

doileda1522

gross1526

headlessa1530

stulty1532

ass-headed1533

pot-headed1533

stupid?1541

sheep's head1542

doltish1543

dumpish1545

assish1548

blockish1548

slow-witted1548

blockheaded1549

surd1551

dull-headed1552

hammer-headed1552

skit-brained?1553

buzzardly1561

witless1562

log-headeda1566

assy1566

sottish1566

dastardly1567

stupidious1567

beetle-headed1570

calvish1570

bluntish1578

cod's-headed1578

grout-headed1578

bedaft1579

dull-pated1580

blate1581

buzzard-like1581

long-eared1582

dullard1583

woodena1586

duncical1588

leaden-headed1589

buzzard1592

dorbellical1592

dunstical1592

heavy-headeda1593

shallow-brained1592

blunt-witted1594

mossy1597

Bœotian1598

clay-brained1598

fat1598

fat-witted1598

knotty-pated1598

stupidous1598

wit-lost1599

barren1600

duncifiedc1600

lourdish1600

stockish1600

thick1600

booby1603

leaden-pated1603

partless1603

thin-headed1603

leaden-skulledc1604

blockhead1606

frost-brained1606

ram-headed1608

beef-witted1609

insulse1609

leaden-spirited1609

asininec1610

clumse1611

blockheadly1612

wattle-headed1613

flata1616

logger-headeda1616

puppy-headeda1616

shallow-patedc1616

thick-brained1619

half-headed1621

buzzard-blinda1625

beef-brained1628

toom-headed1629

thick-witted1634

woollen-witted1635

squirrel-headed1637

clod-pated1639

lean-souled1639

muddy-headed1642

leaden-witteda1645

as sad as any mallet1645

under-headed1646

fat-headed1647

half-witted1647

insipid1651

insulsate1652

soft-headed1653

thick-skulleda1657

muddish1658

non-intelligent1659

whey-brained1660

sap-headed1665

timber-headed1666

leather-headeda1668

out of (one's) tree1669

boobily1673

thoughtless1673

lourdly1674

logger1675

unintelligenta1676

Bœotic1678

chicken-brained1678

under-witted1683

loggerhead1684

dunderheaded1692

unintelligible1694

buffle-headed1697

crassicc1700

numbskulled1707

crassous1708

doddy-polled1708

haggis-headed1715

niddy-noddy1722

muzzy1723

pudding-headed1726

sumphish1728

pitcher-souleda1739

duncey1743

hebete1743

chuckheaded1756

dumb1756

duncely1757

imbecile1766

mutton-headed1768

chuckle-headed1770

jobbernowl1770

dowfarta1774

boobyish1778

wittol1780

staumrel1787

opaquec1789

stoopid1791

mud-headed1793

borné1795

muzzy-headed1798

nog-headed1800

thick-headed1801

gypit1804

duncish1805

lightweight1809

numbskull1814

tup-headed1816

chuckle-pate1820

unintellectuala1821

dense1822

ninnyish1822

dunch1825

fozy1825

potato-headed1826

beef-headed1828

donkeyish1831

blockheadish1833

pinheaded1837

squirrel-minded1837

pumpkin-headed1838

tomfoolish1838

dundering1840

chicken-headed1842

like a bump on a log1842

ninny-minded1849

numbheadeda1852

nincompoopish1852

suet-brained1852

dolly1853

mullet-headed1853

sodden1853

fiddle-headed1854

numb1854

bovine1855

logy1859

crass1861

unsmart1861

off his chump1864

wooden-headed1865

stupe1866

lean-minded1867

duffing1869

cretinous1871

doddering1871

thick-head1873

doddling1874

stupido1879

boneheaded1883

woolly-headed1883

leaden-natured1889

suet-headed1890

sam-sodden1891

dopey1896

turnip-headed1898

bonehead1903

wool-witted1905

peanut-headed1906

peanut-brained1907

dilly1909

torpid-minded1909

retardate1912

nitwitted1917

meat-headed1918

mug1922

cloth-headed1925

loopy1925

nitwit1928

lame-brained1929

dead from the neck up1930

simpy1932

nail-headed1936

square-headed1936

dingbats1937

pinhead1939

dim-witted1940

pea-brained1942

clueless1943

lobotomized1943

retarded1949

pointy-headed1950

clottish1952

like a stunned mullet1953

silly (or crazy) as a two-bob watch1954

out to lunch1955

pin-brained1958

dozy1959

eejity1964

out of one's tiny mind1965

doofus1967

twitty1967

twittish1969

twatty1975

twattish1976

blur1977

dof1979

goofus1981

dickheaded1991

dickish1991

numpty1992

cockish1996

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > person of weak intellect > [noun] > idiot, crazy person

Jack foolc1405

drivel1478

idiotc1480

nidiot1533

hare-brain1542

hare-copa1566

nidget1579

lunatic1602

flight-head1605

moonling1631

driveller1682

tomfool1683

niddy-noddy1722

imbecile1781

puggle1783

gype1825

eejit1853

nowmun1854

dinlo1873

loon1885

ratbag1890

doughbakea1895

ding-a-ling1899

feeb1914

dingbat1915

bodoh1922

diddy1933

Nimrod1933

pranny1949

momo1953

head-the-ball1958

flake1968

fuckwit1969

tattie-bogle1969

div1975

tube1975

wazzock1976

gonzo1977

motorhead1979

prannet1979

twonk1981

dough ball1983

numpty1985

divvy1987

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > an artistic representation > grotesque

grotesque1643

caricatura1712

niddy-noddy1722

caricature1748

1722 H. Carey Hanging & Marriage i. iii But when my Corps you wedded have, and that poor Dick is in his Grave; Why then you may give up your Body, To that Psalm-singing Niddy-Noddy.

1793 J. O'Keefe World in Village 74 Then the men, oh, they are precious niddy-noddies, With their throats tied up, false calves, and taper bodies.

1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield 158 Niddy-Noddy, a fool.

1889 T. E. Brown Manx Witch i. 131 Some niddy-noddy Of a poor craythur you'll be seein still On the counthry goin.

1910 A. J. Hamlyn in Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries July 73 The niddy-noddy [embossed on a church bell] is composed of a human face, with a large wing growing out of, and concealing, the neighbourhood of the right ear, supported on two rather distorted legs and feet.

1967 H. Orton & M. F. Wakelin Surv. Eng. Dial. IV. ii. 640 Q[uestion]. A man who can never do things in the right way is quite... [Devon] Gawk, stupid, a niddy-noddy heller.

3. A hand-held device used to skein and measure yarn, consisting of a vertical central bar with shorter horizontal bars at either end offset at right angles to one another, round which yarn is wound in a figure-of-eight movement; a hand reel.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > winding > equipment for > for winding and measuring > for wool

niddy-noddy1890

1890 G. S. Hall in Proc. Amer. Antiquarian Soc. 7 111 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.

1927 M. N. Rawson Candle Days ii. 28 The graceful ‘swifts’, the ‘niddy noddy’, or hand reels, was also of home construction in wood.

1968 Beaver Winter 43/1 A cross between the hand looms..has been found practical, as has been..the English niddy-noddy and butterfly yarn winders.

1969 E. 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.

1984 P. Allen Old Galleries Cumbria 7 When sufficient yarn has been spun on spindle or wheel, it is removed onto a niddy noddy, or skein winder.

2008 L. Boeger Intertwined iv. 85 Once the bobbin is full, wind the yarn onto the niddy noddy.

†B. adv.

To and fro, unsteadily. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > [adverb] > nodding

niddle-noddlec1744

niddy-noddy1877

1877 W. Watson Poems 38 Ere we're half gate wi' our life, Our head plays niddy noddy, Auld-like some day.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	niddy-noddy
释义	niddy-noddyn.adj.adv. Brit. /ˈnɪdɪˌnɒdi/, U.S. /ˈˌnɪdiˈˌnɑdi/ Forms: 1600s niddie noddie, 1700s– niddy-noddy. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymon: nod v. Etymology: Reduplication (with vowel variation and suffixation: compare -y suffix¹) of nod v.In sense A. 2 probably a reduplication with vowel variation of noddy n.¹ In quot. 1653 at sense A. 1 translating French nicquenocque (1532 in Rabelais in the passage translated). A. n. (and adj.) †1. A nodding movement of the head, esp. one indicative of drowsiness. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun] > nodding in sleep nodding1548 nutation1612 niddy-noddy1653 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. vii. 41 The push-forward of the Alchimists, The niddie noddie of the sachel-loaded seekers. 1805 J. Robertson Dr. Last, Sole & Body Mender in Coll. Comic Songs 41 Make a mortar of the stew-tub—mix sal salpolyrrist and rhubarb, As a medicine for the palsy, niddy noddy. 1808 W. Watson Poems (1877) 32 Countra bodies, Wha, tentless o' yer niddy noddies, Yer squints, an' scrapes, an' how-d'ye-do's, Tell owre their min', an' tak' their booze. 1887 W. Allingham Rhymes for Young Folk 54 Do all your sleeping at night, For then niddy-noddy is right. 2. An idiot, a fool; a grotesque image. Also as adj.: stupid. English regional in later use. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adjective] sloweOE stuntc960 dullOE hardOE stuntlyc1000 sotc1050 dillc1175 dulta1225 simplea1325 heavy1340 astonedc1374 sheepishc1380 dull-witteda1387 lourd1390 steerishc1411 ass-likea1425 brainless?a1439 deafc1440 sluggishc1450 short-witted1477 obtuse1509 peakish1519 wearish1519 deaf, or dumb as a beetle1520 doileda1522 gross1526 headlessa1530 stulty1532 ass-headed1533 pot-headed1533 stupid?1541 sheep's head1542 doltish1543 dumpish1545 assish1548 blockish1548 slow-witted1548 blockheaded1549 surd1551 dull-headed1552 hammer-headed1552 skit-brained?1553 buzzardly1561 witless1562 log-headeda1566 assy1566 sottish1566 dastardly1567 stupidious1567 beetle-headed1570 calvish1570 bluntish1578 cod's-headed1578 grout-headed1578 bedaft1579 dull-pated1580 blate1581 buzzard-like1581 long-eared1582 dullard1583 woodena1586 duncical1588 leaden-headed1589 buzzard1592 dorbellical1592 dunstical1592 heavy-headeda1593 shallow-brained1592 blunt-witted1594 mossy1597 Bœotian1598 clay-brained1598 fat1598 fat-witted1598 knotty-pated1598 stupidous1598 wit-lost1599 barren1600 duncifiedc1600 lourdish1600 stockish1600 thick1600 booby1603 leaden-pated1603 partless1603 thin-headed1603 leaden-skulledc1604 blockhead1606 frost-brained1606 ram-headed1608 beef-witted1609 insulse1609 leaden-spirited1609 asininec1610 clumse1611 blockheadly1612 wattle-headed1613 flata1616 logger-headeda1616 puppy-headeda1616 shallow-patedc1616 thick-brained1619 half-headed1621 buzzard-blinda1625 beef-brained1628 toom-headed1629 thick-witted1634 woollen-witted1635 squirrel-headed1637 clod-pated1639 lean-souled1639 muddy-headed1642 leaden-witteda1645 as sad as any mallet1645 under-headed1646 fat-headed1647 half-witted1647 insipid1651 insulsate1652 soft-headed1653 thick-skulleda1657 muddish1658 non-intelligent1659 whey-brained1660 sap-headed1665 timber-headed1666 leather-headeda1668 out of (one's) tree1669 boobily1673 thoughtless1673 lourdly1674 logger1675 unintelligenta1676 Bœotic1678 chicken-brained1678 under-witted1683 loggerhead1684 dunderheaded1692 unintelligible1694 buffle-headed1697 crassicc1700 numbskulled1707 crassous1708 doddy-polled1708 haggis-headed1715 niddy-noddy1722 muzzy1723 pudding-headed1726 sumphish1728 pitcher-souleda1739 duncey1743 hebete1743 chuckheaded1756 dumb1756 duncely1757 imbecile1766 mutton-headed1768 chuckle-headed1770 jobbernowl1770 dowfarta1774 boobyish1778 wittol1780 staumrel1787 opaquec1789 stoopid1791 mud-headed1793 borné1795 muzzy-headed1798 nog-headed1800 thick-headed1801 gypit1804 duncish1805 lightweight1809 numbskull1814 tup-headed1816 chuckle-pate1820 unintellectuala1821 dense1822 ninnyish1822 dunch1825 fozy1825 potato-headed1826 beef-headed1828 donkeyish1831 blockheadish1833 pinheaded1837 squirrel-minded1837 pumpkin-headed1838 tomfoolish1838 dundering1840 chicken-headed1842 like a bump on a log1842 ninny-minded1849 numbheadeda1852 nincompoopish1852 suet-brained1852 dolly1853 mullet-headed1853 sodden1853 fiddle-headed1854 numb1854 bovine1855 logy1859 crass1861 unsmart1861 off his chump1864 wooden-headed1865 stupe1866 lean-minded1867 duffing1869 cretinous1871 doddering1871 thick-head1873 doddling1874 stupido1879 boneheaded1883 woolly-headed1883 leaden-natured1889 suet-headed1890 sam-sodden1891 dopey1896 turnip-headed1898 bonehead1903 wool-witted1905 peanut-headed1906 peanut-brained1907 dilly1909 torpid-minded1909 retardate1912 nitwitted1917 meat-headed1918 mug1922 cloth-headed1925 loopy1925 nitwit1928 lame-brained1929 dead from the neck up1930 simpy1932 nail-headed1936 square-headed1936 dingbats1937 pinhead1939 dim-witted1940 pea-brained1942 clueless1943 lobotomized1943 retarded1949 pointy-headed1950 clottish1952 like a stunned mullet1953 silly (or crazy) as a two-bob watch1954 out to lunch1955 pin-brained1958 dozy1959 eejity1964 out of one's tiny mind1965 doofus1967 twitty1967 twittish1969 twatty1975 twattish1976 blur1977 dof1979 goofus1981 dickheaded1991 dickish1991 numpty1992 cockish1996 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > person of weak intellect > [noun] > idiot, crazy person Jack foolc1405 drivel1478 idiotc1480 nidiot1533 hare-brain1542 hare-copa1566 nidget1579 lunatic1602 flight-head1605 moonling1631 driveller1682 tomfool1683 niddy-noddy1722 imbecile1781 puggle1783 gype1825 eejit1853 nowmun1854 dinlo1873 loon1885 ratbag1890 doughbakea1895 ding-a-ling1899 feeb1914 dingbat1915 bodoh1922 diddy1933 Nimrod1933 pranny1949 momo1953 head-the-ball1958 flake1968 fuckwit1969 tattie-bogle1969 div1975 tube1975 wazzock1976 gonzo1977 motorhead1979 prannet1979 twonk1981 dough ball1983 numpty1985 divvy1987 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > an artistic representation > grotesque grotesque1643 caricatura1712 niddy-noddy1722 caricature1748 1722 H. Carey Hanging & Marriage i. iii But when my Corps you wedded have, and that poor Dick is in his Grave; Why then you may give up your Body, To that Psalm-singing Niddy-Noddy. 1793 J. O'Keefe World in Village 74 Then the men, oh, they are precious niddy-noddies, With their throats tied up, false calves, and taper bodies. 1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield 158 Niddy-Noddy, a fool. 1889 T. E. Brown Manx Witch i. 131 Some niddy-noddy Of a poor craythur you'll be seein still On the counthry goin. 1910 A. J. Hamlyn in Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries July 73 The niddy-noddy [embossed on a church bell] is composed of a human face, with a large wing growing out of, and concealing, the neighbourhood of the right ear, supported on two rather distorted legs and feet. 1967 H. Orton & M. F. Wakelin Surv. Eng. Dial. IV. ii. 640 Q[uestion]. A man who can never do things in the right way is quite... [Devon] Gawk, stupid, a niddy-noddy heller. 3. A hand-held device used to skein and measure yarn, consisting of a vertical central bar with shorter horizontal bars at either end offset at right angles to one another, round which yarn is wound in a figure-of-eight movement; a hand reel. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > winding > equipment for > for winding and measuring > for wool niddy-noddy1890 1890 G. S. Hall in Proc. Amer. Antiquarian Soc. 7 111 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. 1927 M. N. Rawson Candle Days ii. 28 The graceful ‘swifts’, the ‘niddy noddy’, or hand reels, was also of home construction in wood. 1968 Beaver Winter 43/1 A cross between the hand looms..has been found practical, as has been..the English niddy-noddy and butterfly yarn winders. 1969 E. 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. 1984 P. Allen Old Galleries Cumbria 7 When sufficient yarn has been spun on spindle or wheel, it is removed onto a niddy noddy, or skein winder. 2008 L. Boeger Intertwined iv. 85 Once the bobbin is full, wind the yarn onto the niddy noddy. †B. adv. To and fro, unsteadily. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > [adverb] > nodding niddle-noddlec1744 niddy-noddy1877 1877 W. Watson Poems 38 Ere we're half gate wi' our life, Our head plays niddy noddy, Auld-like some day. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † niddy-noddyv. Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by conversion. Or (ii) a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: niddy-noddy n.; niddle-noddle v. Etymology: Either < niddy-noddy n., or an alteration of niddle-noddle v. Obsolete. rare. intransitive. = niddle-noddle v. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > move to and fro or up and down [verb (intransitive)] > nod the head > rapidly or repeatedly niddle-noddle1791 nid-nodc1817 niddy-noddy1867 1867 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) I. 324 The little phantasm of a creature—Sloane his name—who went niddy-noddying with his head. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.adj.adv.1653v.1867
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niddy-noddyn.adj.adv.

† niddy-noddyv.