noodle1
/ˈnuːd(ə)l
/noun
A very thin, long strip of pasta or a similar flour paste, eaten with a sauce or in a soup: cook the noodles in a large pan of boiling water spicy Sichuan noodles...
- For soup with an Asian flair, substitute Udon noodles for the egg noodles, soy sauce for the salt, bok choy for the peas, and add some hot peppers and fresh garlic.
- Other grain products are sometimes steamed like couscous, such as whole or cracked grains, grain-shaped noodles similar to European soup pastas, and even vermicelli.
- Add the udon noodles, soy sauce and oyster sauce and cook until heated through.
Origin
Late 18th century: from German Nudel, of unknown origin.
Rhymes
noodle2
/ˈnuːd(ə)l/noun informal
1A stupid or silly person.
2A person’s head.
Origin
Mid 18th century: of unknown origin.
noodle3
/ˈnuːd(ə)l/verb [no object] informal
Improvise or play casually on a musical instrument: tapes of him noodling on his farfisa organ (as noun noodling) ambient synthesizer noodling...
- The same with ‘Guitars for Plants’ with its ambient axe noodling, which works well as a singular piece, but taken with the whole of the record only seems to stray and distract from the path already beaten through previous tracks.
- Each track is built from a simple drum pattern, being covered in keyboard noodling, reverb, echo, distortion and sound effects in order to achieve a dense, claustrophobic background.
- Fortunately, Townshend's guitar noodling never steps into the realm of being entirely gratuitous, and as with all the best songs on Heathen, Bowie's vocals are wisely left to dominate.
Origin
Mid 19th century: of unknown origin.
noodle4
/ˈnuːd(ə)l/verb [with object] Australian informal
Search (an opal dump) for opals: he was half-heartedly noodling the dumps for opal chips [no object]: anyone can noodle in the gravelly tailings of the mine...
- "Nodules" was supposedly corrupted to "noodles" and, thus, looking for opals became "noodling."
- Noodling on the mine sites around town is discouraged.
- Noodling of the dumps is a regular occupation for women, children, and aged miners.
Origin
Early 20th century: of unknown origin.