noddy
suomi-englanti sanakirjanoddy englanniksi
(synonyms)
(RQ:John Heywood Play of Love)
(RQ:Beaumont Knight). If it be ſo, my friend, you vſe me fine, / VVhat do you thinke I am? / ''Iasp''(quote-gloss). An arrant noddie / ''Hum''. A vvord of obliquie, novv by Gods bodie, / I'le tell thy maiſter for I knovv thee vvell.
(RQ:Burton Melancholy) that ſcoffing ''Pope'', (..) took an extraordinary delight in humoring of ſilly fellovves, and to put gulleries vpon them, (..) he made ſoft fellovves ſtarke noddies, and ſuch as vvere fooliſh, quite mad before hee left them.
(RQ:L'Estrange Answer)
(RQ:Cowley Town)
(RQ:Byron Don Juan) puts the same thought in / The mouth of some one in his plays so doating, / Which many people pass for wits by quoting.
(RQ:Robert Browning Poems)"
(senseid)
(RQ:Coryat Crudities)|sig=l|verso=1|page=157|passage=The ſpout of ſport, and follies turtle Doue, / Noddie turn'd vp, all made, yet loſe the tricke.
(RQ:Foote Author)
''In full'' noddy-fifteen: a certain game related to cribbage.
(RQ:Nashe Almond)
(RQ:Jonson Works)
(RQ:Day Works) much at primeroe and noddy he loſt Time and his monie to (quote-gloss).
(RQ:Halliwell Dictionary) Noddy is now played as follows: Any number can play—the cards are all dealt out—the elder hand plays one, (of which he hath a pair or a ''prial'' if a good player)—saying or singing "there's a good card for thee," passing it to his right hand neighbour—the person next in succession who holds its pair covers it, saying "there's still a better than he;" and passes both onward—the person holding the third of the sort (ace, six, queen, or what not) puts it on with "there's the best of all three:" and the holder of the fourth crowns all with the emphatic—"And there is ''Niddy-Noddeee''."—He wins the tack, turns it down, and begins again. He who is first ''out'' receives from his adversaries a fish (or a bean, as the case may be) for each unplayed card.
(senseid) (synonym of).
(RQ:Dekker Middleton Blurt)
(RQ:Skelton Poetical Works)
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) Osborne (publisher)|Thomas Osborne,(nb...)|year_published=1746|volume=VII|page=589|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/harleianmiscella07oldy/page/589/mode/1up|column=1|oclc=560514751|passage=I beſeech you, VVill your VViſdoms, or common Senſe, or Underſtanding, or vvhat you vvill call it, approve of nothing in our Common-Prayer Book, that you preſent us vvith an ''inane nihil'', a nevv Directory of a noddy Synod, or find you ſo many Deficiencies in Monarchical Government, that you ſhould ſeek to introduce an Ochlocracy, a People Svvay?
(synonym of)), to a fool of
(RQ:Breton Pasquils Fooles-cap)
(senseid) Any of several stout-bodied, gregarious terns of the genus (taxfmt) found in tropical seas, especially the (vern) or (vern) ((taxfmt)).
(RQ:Dampier New Holland) The Top or Crovvn of the Head of this Noddy was Coal-black, having alſo ſmall black Streaks round about and cloſe to the Eyes; and round theſe Streaks on each ſide, a pretty broad vvhite Circle. The Breaſt, Belly, and under part of the VVings of this Noddy vvere vvhite: And the Back and upper part of its VVings of a faint black or ſmoak Colour.
(RQ:Johnson History of the Pyrates) The Noddies are ſmaller and flat footed alſo.
(RQ:Bligh Voyage)
(RQ:Byron Don Juan)
(RQ:Darwin et al Voyages)—the booby and the noddy. The former is a species of gannet, and the latter a tern. Both are of a tame and stupid disposition, and are so unaccustomed to visiters,(sic) that I could have killed any number of them with my geological hammer.
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(RQ:Macklin Irishman) VVhy a new kind of a London Engliſh, that's no more like our Iriſh Engliſh, than a coxcomb's fine gilded chariot like a Glaſſmanogue (quote-gloss) noddy.
(RQ:Le Fanu House)" / "Let's see Nutter—you or I must go—we'll take one of these songster's "noddies."(quote-gloss) "noddy," give me leave to remark, was the one-horse hack vehicle of Dublin and the country round, which has since given place to the jaunting car, which is, in turn, half superseded by the cab.
(RQ:Joyce Ulysses)
(senseid) (synonym of).
(quote-song) Ackquille Jean Pollard; Dontplay pseudonym|title=Aint a Joke|location=Kingdom|publisher=Y2O Records|note=1:39 from the start|passage=Bakin' off of this light skin hottie / Sweet ting, arch ya up and give noddy
(senseid) A cutaway scene of a television interviewer nodding at the person being interviewed (or sometimes the interviewee nodding at the interviewer), often used to cover an editing gap in an interview.
(ux)
In clockmaking and watchmaking: an inverted pendulum consisting of a short, vertical, flat spring which supports a rod having a bob at the top, which is used for detecting and measuring slight horizontal vibrations of a body to which it is attached.
(quote-journal); London: Cadell (publisher)|Thomas Cadell,(nb...)|year_published=1844|volume=XV, part I|pages=219–220|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/transactionsofro15roya/page/219/mode/1up|oclc=5894547381|passage=The elegant inverted Pendulum or ''Noddy'' contrived by the late Mr (smallcaps), suggested to me a different arrangement. (..) It is evident that, by adjusting the stiffness of the wire, or the height of the ball C, we may alter to any extent the relation of the forces of Elasticity and of Gravity, and consequently render the equilibrium of the machine in a vertical position stable, indifferent, or unstable.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) (w), and are to be sold by him and Dring|Thomas Dring the younger,(nb...)|year_published=1668|page=110|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=BIFLDrvV_BsC&pg=PA110|oclc=78838775|passage=In ''Paternoſter-rovv'', vve found a fellovv at nodie upon a ſtall, vvith his Lanthorn and Candle by him, having firſt ſeized on that, and throvvn it into the Kennel, vve proſecuted our abuſe by falling upon him, and beating him. (..) To our coſt, vve found him as nimble and as light footed as a Stag, vvho overtaking us, ſurprized us; and as he vvas carrying us before the Conſtable, vve met vvith the grand Round, vvho, vvithout as much examination, committed us as Rates to the Counter.
(RQ:Hawthorne Septimius Felton) I'll say a prayer and try to go to sleep. I feel very noddy all at once.