单词 | noodle |
释义 | noodlen.1 1. colloquial. A stupid or silly person; a fool, an idiot. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > foolish person, fool > fool, simpleton > [noun] boinarda1300 daffc1325 goky1377 nicea1393 unwiseman1400 totc1425 alphinc1440 dawc1500 hoddypeak1500 dawpatea1529 hoddypolla1529 noddy1534 kimec1535 coxcomb1542 sheep1542 sheep's head1542 goose1547 dawcock1556 nodgecock1566 peak-goosea1568 hottie tottie?c1570 Tom Towly1582 wittol1588 goose-cap1589 nodgecomb1592 ninny1593 chicken1600 fopdoodle16.. hoddy-noddy1600 hoddy-doddy1601 peagoose1606 fopster1607 nazold1607 nupson1607 wigeon1607 fondrel1613 simpleton1639 pigwidgeon1640 simpletonian1652 Tony1654 nizy1673 Simple Simon?1673 Tom Farthing1674 totty-head1680 cockcomb1684 cod1699 nikin1699 sap-pate1699 simpkin1699 mackninnya1706 gilly-gaupus?1719 noodle1720 sapskull1735 gobbin?1746 Judy1781 zanya1784 spoony1795 sap-head1798 spoon1799 gomerel1814 sap1815 neddy1818 milestone1819 sunket1823 sunketa1825 gawp1825 gawpy1825 gawpus1826 Tomnoddy1826 Sammy1828 tammie norie1828 Tommy1828 gom1834 noodlehead1835 nowmun1854 gum-sucker1855 flat-head1862 peggy1869 noodledum1883 jay1884 toot1888 peanut head1891 simp1903 sappyhead1922 Arkie1927 putz1928 steamer1932 jerk-off1939 drongo1942 galah1945 Charley1946 nong-nong1959 mouth-breather1979 twonk1981 1720 C. Shadwell Sham Prince II. 149 But, my Dear, ha, ha, ha, had you seen how like Ninny-hammers and Noodles they look'd when the Plot was discover'd. 1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas I. iii. x. 249 Laura..describ'd their characters nicely... ‘This here (said she) is a noodle.—That fellow is a brute.’ 1764 S. Foote Mayor of Garret ii. 42 To take up at last with such a noodle as he. 1802 Sporting Mag. 20 118 The Buck, who scorns the City Puts, And thinks all rich men noodles. 1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. iii. 67 Thou would'st..trip like the noodles of Hogs-Norton, when the pigs play on the organ. 1875 A. Helps Social Pressure viii. 113 I say he is a noodle if he has not previously determined how and when to leave off. 1900 W. S. Gilbert in Graphic Dec. (Christmas Number) 8/3 It must never get about that we've made such noodles of ourselves. 1976 K. Amis Alteration iii. 91 ‘Gain! How gain?’ ‘Not in riches, you noodle—in credit, in mark, in fame.’ 1993 S. McAughtry Touch & Go xvi. 120 She was no noodle: she'd have noted the magneto readings. 2. slang. The head. Cf. noddle n.1 1b, 1c. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > [noun] nolleOE headOE topa1225 copc1264 scalpa1300 chiefc1330 crownc1330 jowla1400 poll?a1400 testea1400 ball in the hoodc1400 palleta1425 noddle?1507 costard?1515 nab?1536 neck1560 coxcomb1567 sconce1567 now1568 headpiece1579 mazer1581 mazardc1595 cockcomb1602 costrel1604 cranion1611 pasha1616 noddle pate1622 block1635 cranium1647 sallet1652 poundrel1664 nob1699 crany?1730 knowledge box1755 noodle1762 noggin1769 napper1785 garret1796 pimple1811 knowledge-casket1822 coco1828 cobbra1832 coconut1834 top-piece1838 nut1841 barnet1857 twopenny1859 chump1864 topknot1869 conk1870 masthead1884 filbert1886 bonce1889 crumpet1891 dome1891 roof1897 beanc1905 belfry1907 hat rack1907 melon1907 box1908 lemon1923 loaf1925 pound1933 sconec1945 nana1966 1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy v. xxxviii What can have got into that precious noodle of thine? 1783 L. MacNally Tristram Shandy I. 9 Precious souls! what are their two noodles together about? c1880 G. H. Jessop Sam'l of Posen iii, in America's Lost Plays (1940) IV. 171 Now, Mademoisell, I never make mistakes... I have a great noodle. (Puts his finger to his head.) 1923 T. Fane What's Wrong with Movies vi. 101 To the masses..using their noodles has long been classed..as one of life's hard labors. 1945 M. Trist in Coast to Coast 1944 207 Take no notice... She's off her noodle. 1985 I. Brown & J. Hendrie Cabinet Leaks 34 As the toaster bounced off Dad's noodle, I piped up..: ‘Don't worry, Dad.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). noodlen.2 A string- or ribbonlike piece of pasta or similar flour paste (sometimes containing egg) typically cooked in liquid and served either in a soup or as an accompaniment to another dish; (more generally in North American usage) any style of pasta. Formerly also: a dumpling cooked and served in a similar manner (cf. knödel n., knaidel n.). Usually in plural.Now chiefly in the context of northern European and Asian cuisines, but also used (esp. in North American use) with reference to Italian pasta. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > noodle > [noun] noodle1779 nouille1845 lokshen1884 pancit1912 1779 Lady M. Coke Jrnl. Oct. (1892) III. 243 A noodle soup—this I begged to be explained and was told it was made only of veal with lumps of bread boiled in it. 1812 J. Melish Trav. in U.S.A. II. 75 We did not much like the appearance of the dish, which was called noodles, but, on tasting it, we found it to be very palatable. 1824 M. Randolph Virginia House-wife 100 To Make Vermicelli... Noodles are made in the same manner, only instead of strips, they should be cut in tiny squares and dried. 1850 J. von Tautphœus Initials (1853) 139 That's the soup, and the Noodles will be all squashed if you work them up after that fashion. 1904 N.Y. Herald 30 Oct. Fresh noodles are made daily for consumption in the German quarter. 1938 D. Baker Young Man with Horn i. v. 56 The two styles of chow mein: in one you get the noodles and the sauce served separately, and in the other..mixed before they are served. 1952 H. Sutton Footloose in Switzerland ii. 55 The most typical dish of Zurich is something known as g'schnetzeltes... It comes served with noodles or roesti, which are home fries. 1964 Guardian 22 May 8/5 Fettuccine, long wide noodles with egg. 1991 G. Ehrlich Islands, Universe, Home vii. 103 Five or six temples made up the complex, plus a huge parking lot lined with souvenir shops and soba stands where one could eat soup and noodles and drink special bitter tea. Compounds noodle soup n. soup containing noodles. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > [noun] > other soups breec1000 mortressc1387 cretone?a1400 mortrelc1400 primrosea1450 water-kale?a1500 white broth?1537 plum broth1614 mutton broth1615 veal brotha1625 nettle-kale?c1625 China-broth1628 bisque1647 beer-broth1648 dilligrout1662 nativity broth1674 sowdyc1700 mandarin broth1701 white soup1708 soup-vermicell1724 soup-meagre1733 burgoo1743 sago-gruel1743 soup maigre1754 vermicelli soup1769 vermicelli1771 noodle soup1779 mock turtle soup1783 pepper-water1783 mulligatawny1784 powsowdie1787 macaroni soup1789 bird's nest soup1806 smiggins1825 garbure1829 pish-pash1834 laksa1846 sancocho1851 ajiaco1856 pepper soup1860 liquorice-soup1864 mock turtle1876 borsch1884 petite marmite1890 whey-brose1894 rassolnik1899 lokshen soup1900 menudo1904 hoosh1905 sinigang1912 waterzooi1915 Cullen Skink1916 swallow's nest soup1920 mizutaki1933 rasam1933 pasta fazool1935 pho1935 pasta fagioli1951 stracciatella1954 solyanka1958 tom yam1960 mannish water1968 pasta e fagioli1968 ribollita1968 tom yam kung1969 1779Noodle soup [see main sense]. 1862 M. B. Betham-Edwards John & I I. vii. 146 He had almost got reconciled to the frequent recurrence of sausage and noodle soup. 1994 Trav. & Leisure Dec. 67/1 A popular meal at any time of day is pho, a noodle soup with vegetables, meat, and various flavorful leaves. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). noodlen.3 Chiefly Jazz. A trill or improvisation on an instrument. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > ornament > [noun] relish1561 ornament1664 agrément1789 embroidery1875 noodle1926 1926 P. Whiteman & M. M. McBride Jazz x. 220 ‘Noodles’, that is, fancy figures in saxophone such as triple trills, often crowd out the melody. 1958 Jazz Rev. Nov. 25 My one complaint is that Monk here allows too many of his favourite piano ‘noodles’ (all pianists seem to have them). 1989 Guitar Player Mar. 110/1 First, pick up your guitar and noodle. Stop in mid-noodle, and try to sing back what you just played. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). noodlev.1ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > befool, cheat, dupe [verb (transitive)] belirtOE bitruflea1250 begab1297 bobc1320 bedaffc1386 befool1393 mock1440 triflea1450 glaik?a1513 bedawa1529 fond?1529 allude1535 gulla1550 dolt1553 dor1570 poop1575 colt1579 foolify1581 assot1583 noddify1583 begecka1586 elude1594 wigeona1595 fool1598 noddy1600 fop1602 begull1605 waddle1606 woodcockize1611 bemocka1616 greasea1625 noddypoop1640 truff1657 bubble1668 cully1676 coaxc1679 dupe1704 to play off1712 noodle1769 idiotize1775 oxify1804 tomfool1835 sammyfoozle1837 trail1847 pipe lay1848 pigwidgeon1852 green1853 con1896 rib1912 shuck1959 1769 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1883) IV. 553 Yet 'tis sure a Strange Thing that a british born K—— Shou'd be noodled by M——r and W——e. 1803 Censor 1 Feb. 23 To descend from my grammatical stilts in order to inform her that her mistress has completely noodled her! 1836 J. Constable Let. 18 Mar. (1965) III. 134 How he has noodled poor Lee out of what little sense he had. 2. intransitive. colloquial (English regional). To fool around, to waste time. ΚΠ 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 62 What do you do noodling there? 1898 B. Kirkby Lakeland Words 106 He's allus newdlen aboot t' public hoose efter some cheap yal. 1948 M. Carbery & E. Grey Herts. Heritage 116 Noodlin, behaving aimlessly. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). noodlev.2 Scottish (Shetland). transitive and intransitive. To sing (a tune) in a low undertone; to hum. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (intransitive)] > hum humc1485 tune1755 noodle1897 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (transitive)] > hum hum1602 sough1711 sowff1719 sowth?1784 teedle?a1800 thruma1845 noodle1897 1897 Shetland News 10 July Shü was noodlin' a bit o' a fiddle tün till hersel'. 1932 A. Horsbøl tr. J. Jakobsen Etymol. Dict. Norn Lang. in Shetland II. at Nudl I was njudlin it (de tune) ower to mysell... Dey were nodlin to demsells. 1993 J. J. Graham Shetland Dict. (ed. 3) at Noodel He was jöst sittin himlane noodlin owre a aald tön. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). noodlev.3 Australian. 1. intransitive and transitive. To search (an opal dump or ‘mullock’) for opals. ΚΠ 1902 [implied in: Geol. Surv. No. 177 (Queensland Dept. Mines) 20 Some splendid opal is found..by turning over and searching the old heaps and mullock—‘noodling’. (at noodling n.1)]. 1919 Huon Times (Franklin) 21 Nov. 3/3 Now, not a word!.. We'll noodle this on our ‘pat’ later on. 1940 I. L. Idriess Lightning Ridge (1948) xiii. 79 Send the dirt up in the bucket where his mate..would carefully ‘noodle’ it, seeking tell-tale potch and colour. 1963 A. Lubbock Austral. Roundabout 79 Anyone can poke about..and ‘puddle’ or ‘noodle’ in the gravelly tailings of the mines. 1983 Overlander June 40 The Aborigines ‘noodle’ or fossick the mullock heaps..with infinite patience. 2. a. transitive. To remove surrounding matter from (an opal). Also in extended use. ΚΠ 1921 K. S. Prichard Black Opal 68 The brushwood shelters near the mines in which the men sit at midday to eat their lunches and noodle—go over, snip, and examine—the opal they have taken out of the mines. 1976 Bulletin (Sydney) 20 Mar. 40/3 It takes two months for a novel to germinate with me. One fiddles with it, noodles it and then the day comes when I'm ready to go. b. transitive. To obtain (an opal) by searching in opal dumps or ‘mullock’. ΚΠ 1931 M. S. Buchanan Prospecting for Opal in Austral. 10 Produced ten thousand pounds, with what was ‘noodled’ or picked up from the dumps. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). noodlev.4 Fishing. Chiefly U.S. regional (southern). transitive and intransitive. To catch (fish or turtles) by searching with the bare hands, or with the aid of a gaff or fishing spear; to fish in this way. ΚΠ 1923 Dial. Notes 5 215 Noodle, to catch fish with the bare hand or with a long-handled barbed hook. 1933 T. R. Williamson Woods Colt 9 I'm aimin' to help noodle that catfish. 1959 Ecol. Monogr. 59 115/1 An attempt was made to collect every turtle in the population by the following methods: baited hoopnet traps.., noodling or muddling from a boat and on foot. 1960 E. H. Criswell Response to Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. 20 Noodle, to catch catfish nesting in holes in a bank with bare hands. 1968 Ann. Assoc. Amer. Geographers 58 59/1 Fishing by noodling, that is by using hands, Caught a yellow catfish. 2001 Daily Oklahoman (Nexis) 9 Mar. He taped up the wound and noodled anyway. Another danger is getting finned by the needle-like catfish fins. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). noodlev.5 1. transitive and intransitive. Chiefly Jazz. To play or sing (a piece of music) in a tentative, playful, or improvisatory way; (also) to play an elaborate or decorative series of notes. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform music [verb (intransitive)] > improvise or extemporize extemporize1775 improvise1788 impromptu1802 fantasy1840 fake1895 ad-lib1910 busk1934 jam1935 noodle1937 1937 N.Y. Times 21 Mar. xi. 4/4 Noodling is a kind of Afro-American yodeling... Only a few gifted souls can noodle in a satisfactory manner. 1941 Sun (Baltimore) 19 July 8/3 There is something rather exciting about the notion of ‘Old Man River’, already a folk song, being poured out by the whole choir of woodwinds, with the strings noodling away in the background like rolling waters. 1957 Nugget Dec. 5 Every time a jazz musician noodles a passable break these days he is followed by a show of bravura on an open Underwood fingered by a jazz writer. 1965 W. H. Auden About House (1966) 44 In the half-dark, members of an avian orchestra Are already softly noodling, limbering up for An overture at sunrise. 1970 G. Sorrentino Steelwork 31 He had an excellent embouchure, noodling, blowing snatches of Prez tunes. 1985 F. Socolow in I. Gitler Swing to Bop vi. 200 He really wasn't a pianist. He would just sit down and kind of noodle away in the most illegitimate, unschooled way. 1994 Sunday Times Mag. 10 July 24/4 Jagger, Richards and Watts spent a leisurely six weeks..noodling song ideas in the sun. 1997 G. Baxt Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Murder Case xii. 124 Esther noodled at the piano while thinking over what she had seen on television. 2. U.S. colloquial. a. intransitive. To think, esp. to reflect or muse in an unproductive or undirected way; to act light-heartedly (also with about, around); (also) to experiment in an informal, tentative manner. ΚΠ 1942 [implied in: L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §158/1 Nobby noodling, clever thinking. (at noodling n.2 2)]. 1945 Amer. Speech 20 233/2 I finally got down to work and really noodled for about an hour. 1969 Business Week 1 Feb. 72 Some of his staff..are back in the chrome-plated Fifth Avenue offices..‘noodling’ with numbers. 1984 E. Jong Parachutes & Kisses vii. 123 Can't you ever stop nitpicking and noodling? 1991 Compute Sept. 58/3 You'll have to noodle around with these a bit to make them work well. 1994 P. Grescoe Blood Vessel 138 I was drifting off, letting my mind noodle with the events of the day. 1998 New Yorker 26 Jan. 28/2 Abrams was noodling around in his office. 1999 Sci. Amer. Oct. 106/2 William Perkin, a chemist who noodled away for several weeks in 1856 trying to make quinine chemically. 2001 Premiere Sept. 83/1 Lasseter hedges: He's still noodling with story issues, but he would ‘never say never’ to a sequel. b. transitive. to noodle out: to figure out, work out; to devise. to noodle up: to think up (rare). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > contrive, devise, or invent [verb (transitive)] findeOE conceive1340 seek1340 brewc1386 divine1393 to find outc1405 to search outc1425 to find up?c1430 forgec1430 upfindc1440 commentc1450 to dream out1533 inventa1538 father1548 spina1575 coin1580 conceit1591 mint1593 spawn1594 cook1599 infantize1619 fabulize1633 notionate1645 to make upc1650 to spin outa1651 to cook up1655 to strike out1735 mother1788 to think up1855 to noodle out1950 gin1980 1950 Pop. Sci. Sept. 252 When a piece of equipment doesn't do the job as they think it should be done, American farmers traditionally noodle up their own version. 1961 H. Ellison Memos 192 The Captain said something short and brusque, and Tooley noodled it out and said something else. 1981 M. T. Williams in J. M. Barrier & M. T. Williams Smithsonian Bk. Comic-bk. Comics 149 ‘The editors noodled out the name,’ Mrs. Buel told an interviewer more than thirty years later. ‘I was too busy thinking about how she'd look and what she'd do.’ 1994 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Feb. 132/1 Davis began meeting with Ted Turner, noodling out ways to merge Paramount and Turner Broadcasting. 1998 Chicago Tribune 6 July xvi. 5/4 He also kept noodling out plans for a senior dream house. c. transitive. To mull over; to think about, ponder. Also with around. ΚΠ 1952 Sat. Evening Post 20 Sept. 95/2 Think some more. I'll noodle it around too. Then we'll have a meeting. 1977 Time 28 Nov. 37/1 The Tax Foundation, a conservative watchdog of tax changes, is noodling a revision of Ben Franklin's heretofore immutable law that ‘nothing is certain but death and taxes’. 1992 N.Y. Times Mag. 22 Mar. 18/4 The Central Intelligence Agency..has provided us with its approach to the linguistic head-scratcher. We outsiders can noodle it around, but bureaucrats have to have a sign painted on a real door. 1994 Denver Post 2 Jan. t3/1 These days..planners noodle the possibilities of adding a promenade to the Verazzano-Narrows bridge. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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