| 单词 | noodle |
| 释义 | noodle noodle1 /noohd"l/, n. a narrow strip of unleavened egg dough that has been rolled thin and dried, boiled, and served alone or in soups, casseroles, etc.; a ribbon-shaped pasta. [1770-80; < G Nudel] noodle2 /noohd"l/, n. 1. Slang. the head. 2. a fool or simpleton. [1745-55; perh. var. of NODDLE (with oo from FOOL)] noodle3 /noohd"l/, v. , noodled, noodling. v.i. 1. to improvise a musical passage in a casual manner, esp. as a warm-up exercise. 2. Informal. a. to play; toy: to noodle with numbers as a hobby. b. to improvise, experiment, or think creatively: The writers noodled for a week and came up with a better idea for the ad campaign. v.t. 3. Informal. a. to manipulate or tamper with: She denied that she had noodled the statistics to get a favorable result. b. to make or devise freely as an exercise or experiment (sometimes fol. by up): The architects noodled up a model of a solar house. 4. noodle around, Informal. to play, experiment, or improvise. [1935-40, Amer.; orig. uncert.] |
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