单词 | noodleism |
释义 | noodleismn.ΘΚΠ 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 1829 Examiner 145/2 Lord Eldon..rose to disavow participation in such extreme noodleisms. 1834 T. P. Thompson Exercises III. 55 It is manifestly an old-wifery, a noodleism, and all the world for fifty years has held it so. 2. Silliness, stupidity. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [noun] unwisdomc825 unredeeOE egedec1175 unwitc1175 unwisdomnessa1200 dusileca1225 dusischipa1225 folly?c1225 kangschipe?c1225 unwitshipa1250 unwisenessa1340 cornardy1340 unwithead1340 lewdness1362 nicetyc1380 sotie1390 folitya1400 follinessa1400 foolheada1400 insipiencec1422 fondnessa1425 wanwita1425 cocardyc1430 foltry1440 jopperyc1440 folliheada1450 fonning?a1475 niceheada1475 foltheadc1475 folabilitya1529 daftness1552 foolageness1563 foppery1592 guckry1596 senselessness1606 coxcombry1608 goosery1642 ineptitude1656 fopicalness1660 fopperishness1683 insagacity1808 spoonery1824 spooniness1824 noodleism1830 addle-headedness1835 foolishment1852 insapiency1876 ineptness1877 goosiness1888 inepticality1923 sappiness1943 gormlessness1958 1830 Dublin Evening Post 14 Sept. 3/3 Down was not affected with such noodleism. 1831 Examiner 562/2 Written in a congenial strain of noodleism. 1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia VI. xxi. v. 556 Some gleams of Kinghood for us under Marlborough:—after whom Noodleism and Somnambulism. 1907 M. Corelli Woman, or—Suffragette? 21 Every lad in his teens knows what a simpering noodle a woman can be if she wants his attention or courts his admiration, and he generally starts life by answering the noodle according to her noodleism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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