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单词 noodledom
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noodledomn.

Brit. /ˈnuːdldəm/, U.S. /ˈnudəld(ə)m/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: noodle n.1, -dom suffix.
Etymology: < noodle n.1 + -dom suffix. With sense 1 compare noodleism n. Compare also noodledum n.
1. Also with capital initial. Foolish people collectively; a set of foolish people. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > foolish person, fool > [noun] > collectively
redelessa1300
foolish1526
coxcombry1600
Feast of Fools1601
fooliaminy1608
ship of fools1609
noodledom1810
fooldom1843
boobery1920
booboisie1921
1810 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 305 These two phrases, the delight of Noodledom, are grown into common-places upon the subject.
1867 G. Gilfillan Night viii. 294 A noodledom of blood now governs France.
1878 R. Browning Poets Croisic cvi ‘Yes,’ you sneer, ‘Ninnies stock Noodledom.’
1896 Catholic World Aug. 615 All Noodledom delights in the sayings: ‘The true theatre for a woman is the sick-chamber’ [etc.].
2. Foolishness, stupidity; an instance of this. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [noun]
hardnessOE
stuntnessc1000
sotshipc1050
witlessnessa1100
sotheada1200
dullness1398
bluntness1483
slowness1495
grossnessa1530
stupidity?1541
assishness?1548
dastardness1552
lourderie1555
dastardliness1556
blockishness1561
doltishness1569
sottage1569
sheepishness1574
doltry1581
sottishness1589
doltage1593
dorbellism1593
grout-headry1600
opacity1611
duncery1615
dunstery1615
stupidness1619
hebetude1621
insulsity1623
unintelligence1634
obtuseness1648
jobbernowlism1652
dullery1653
non-intelligence1653
blockheadishness1656
crassness1664
blockheadedness1716
stolidness1727
blockheadism1753
numbskullity1779
nincompoophood1791
duncishness1805
numbskullism1806
foziness1821
noodledum1821
obtusity1823
soft-headedness1823
noodledom1827
duncehood1829
dunderheadedness1830
sumphishness1830
asininity1831
dunderheadism1836
stockishness1837
dullardness1840
fat-headedness1840
stupor1845
duncedom1847
misintelligence1848
nincompoopery1850
wooden-headedness1850
dumminess1852
jolterheadedness1852
ninnyship1852
donkeyism1855
dumbness1860
beef-wittedness1863
crassitude1865
donkeyhood1869
slow-wittedness1869
chuckle-headedness1880
leatherheadedness1880
pinheadedness1884
numbskulledness1885
donkeydom1889
thickheadedness1889
density1894
moronism1922
nitwittedness1931
nitwittery1931
noodleness1931
dopiness1942
squirrel-headedness1955
nincompoopism1957
dim-wittedness1960
clottishness1961
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [noun] > stupid deed, thought, etc.
sotheada1200
dotage1528
stupidity1594
sottery1598
dote1643
sottise1673
idiocy1822
jobbernowlism1824
noodledom1827
noodleism1829
crassitude1865
1827 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 21 820 It is the most entire piece of noodledom that can be perpetrated.
1837 Fraser's Mag. 16 640 They are sufficiently bored with the solemn noodledoms of pretension.
1865 Star 5 Jan. The noodledom of the magistrates is the one feature of the case.
1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors I. xiv. 270 Their adorable pretty ignorance, if credibly it exists out of noodledom, is harmful.
1911 M. Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson xviii. 270 He had over Byron this advantage: his noodledom was not a matter of common knowledge.
1940 W. D. D. Lowrie tr. S. Kierkegaard Stages on Life's Way 306 Let me, when I sit by her, sit like a nodding Chinese idol..encompassed by the incense fumes of noodledom.
1999 N.Y. Times (Electronic ed.) 8 Aug. ‘It will be right to be awed by the eclipse, and to draw on ideas from religion, myth, and literature,’ said John Casey, an academic at Cambridge University. ‘It will be much healthier than all the Nostradamus and New Age noodledom that has afflicted us with the approach of the third millennium.’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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