单词 | noodledom |
释义 | noodledomn.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). < n.1810 |
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