单词 | noddling |
释义 | noddlingadj. Now English regional. Nodding. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > [adjective] > nodding noddingc1450 noddling1649 niddle-noddle1761 1649 Impartiall Intelligencer No. 7. 55 A bright bay Mare about 14 hand high, broad and strong jointed,..goeth somwhat nodling before. ?1756 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1877) III. ii. 1083 And so Sr Jackey because you are grown Childish & are led by the Nose by a Noddling Old Billinggate, we must suffer our Lion to be kill'd. 1790 J. Baillie Poems 170 Up-hoist arms, and noddling head. 1804 C. Dibdin Harmonic Preceptor 51 While the noddling head every air seems to mar. 1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield 92 Tha's bin a noddlin fooil all thi lawf. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1649 |
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