Synonyms for noodle

Grammar : Noun

Spell : nood-l

Phonetic Transcription : ˈnud l

Top 10 synonyms for noodle

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Définition of noodle

Origin : "narrow strip of dried dough," 1779, from German Nudel, which is of unknown origin. West Flemish noedel and French nouille are German loan-words. The older noun meaning "simpleton, stupid person" (1753) probably is an unrelated word, as is the slang word for "head" (attested from 1914).

noun head

Example sentences :

Just you get it into your noodle that I mean to be quite free.
Extract from : « Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille » by Emile Zola

Helen, go after him—do anything—anything—to make the noodle understand.
Extract from : « Howards End » by E. M. Forster

Put a noodle over him and that noodle's life will be a burden.
Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

He is a kind of softie—all alive on one side of his brain, and a noodle on the other.
Extract from : « Robert Elsmere » by Mrs. Humphry Ward

Thought you had a noodle to deal with, didn't you, Mr. Philip Bawdrey?
Extract from : « Cleek, the Master Detective » by Thomas W. Hanshew

This silly French noodle is going to get the things in spite of us.
Extract from : « Cleek, the Master Detective » by Thomas W. Hanshew

His shake of the head signified that he was not such a noodle.
Extract from : « The Short Works of George Meredith » by George Meredith

Of course I share your idea, that a husband in such a position is a noodle.
Extract from : « Short Stories » by Fiodor Dostoievski

He must have thought that I had foundered on the noodle soup and plum-pudding.
Extract from : « The Flying Bo'sun » by Arthur Mason

All his former merits were forgotten; he was called a noodle and a charlatan.
Extract from : « Zones of the Spirit » by August Strindberg

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