| 单词 | to noodle up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto noodle up 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. < as lemmas |
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