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单词 nurdle
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nurdlen.

Brit. /ˈnəːdl/, U.S. /ˈnərd(ə)l/
Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps compare nodule n., knurl n., knobble n., all denoting small round things.Compare the following earlier example of nurdle used as a vague, non-technical word to denote a small object:1985 Cincinnati Inquirer 15 Nov. d1/1 This for people who look under the hood and see this little hoochie and that little thingamabob and all those nurdles, as opposed to spark plugs.The word is also used (from 1979 or earlier) for a shot in tiddlywinks (compare nurdle v. 1) but this is probably unrelated.
Originally U.S.
Chiefly in plural. A granule or very small pellet of unprocessed plastic, esp. as found as a pollutant on beaches, in seawater, etc. Cf. microplastic n.
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1997 C. C. Ebbesmeyer in Beachcombers’ Alert! Newslet. Spring 5/2 Surfers occasionally ask California lifeguards what they are: ‘Oh, yeah—nurdles,’ Marine Safety Officer Mitch White said... He had no idea why they're called nurdles, except to say that's what he called them when he was growing up.
2002 U.S. News & World Rep. 4 Nov. 59/3 Moore collected baseball-size gelatinous animals called salps and found their translucent tissues clogged with bits of monofilament fishing line and nurdles (more romantically referred to as ‘mermaid tears’ by beachcombers).
2009 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 364 2159/1 Pre-production plastic pellets, also described as nurdles..account for around 10 percent, by number, of the plastic debris recorded on shorelines in Hawaii.
2018 S. Elias in D. E. DellaSala & M. L. Goldstein Encycl. Anthropocene I. 136 (caption) Plastic pellets (nurdles) recovered from Hong Bay after an accidental spillage from a chemical company ship.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

nurdlev.

Brit. /ˈnəːdl/, U.S. /ˈnərd(ə)l/
Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown.
1. transitive. Tiddlywinks. To shoot (a wink) into a position too close to the pot to be easily potted. Also intransitive.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > table game > tiddlywinks, etc. > [verb (intransitive)] > actions
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > table game > tiddlywinks, etc. > [verb (transitive)] > actions
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1963 Winking World No. 4. 11 Nurdled: counter so near the beaker that it is not possible to flick it in.
1984 P. Beale Partridge's Dict. Slang (ed. 8) 1397/1 Nurdle, to play a wink into a position so near the pot it cannot be potted.
1994 Re: Postal Tiddlywinks in alt.games.tiddlywinks (Usenet newsgroup) 7 Nov. Green plays first. Green nurdles under the far side of the pot.
2010 Winking World (Electronic ed.) No. 93. 7/1 If you've tried to pot and missed, there's also a good chance of a wink being nurdled.
2. transitive. Cricket. colloquial. To work (the ball) away gently, esp. to the leg side; to accumulate runs slowly by this method. Frequently in nudge and nurdle. Also to nurdle one's way and intransitive.
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1985 Times (Nexis) 24 Dec. He crept, nudged and nurdled his way towards the total.
1992 Sunday Times (Nexis) 17 May (Sport) Russell, in a two-hour stint, nicked and nurdled to such advantage that 50 priceless runs were added in 20 overs.
1993 Manch. Guardian Weekly (Nexis) 31 Jan. 31 After struggling to locate the next dozen he tried to nurdle Raju's left-arm spin square on the leg side and was trapped in front.
2001 Evening Post (Nottingham) 10 Sept. 48 His hundred came from just 65 balls; Brown wisely electing thereafter to nudge and nurdle the ball into gaps.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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