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noo·dle1       [nood-l] Pronunciation Key
–noun
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.
[Origin: 1770–80; < G Nudel]
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noo·dle2       [nood-l] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.Slang. the head.
2.a fool or simpleton.
[Origin: 1745–55; perh. var. of noddle (with oo from fool)]
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noo·dle3       [nood-l] Pronunciation Key verb, -dled, -dling.
–verb (used without object)
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.
–verb (used with object)
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.
—Verb phrase
4.noodle around, Informal. to play, experiment, or improvise.
[Origin: 1935–40, Americanism; orig. uncert.]
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noo·dle 1       (nōōd'l)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A narrow, ribbonlike strip of dried dough, usually made of flour, eggs, and water.


[German Nudel.]

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noo·dle 2       (nōōd'l)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   Slang
  1. The human head.
  2. A weak, foolish, or stupid person.


[Probably alteration of noddle.]

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noo·dle 3       (nōōd'l)  Pronunciation Key 
intr.v.   noo·dled, noo·dling, noo·dles Slang
To improvise music on an instrument in an idle, haphazard fashion.


[Imitative.]

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noodle  (n.)
"narrow strip of dried dough," 1779, from Ger. Nudel, of unknown origin. W.Flem. noedel and Fr. nouille are Ger. 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).

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noodle  (v.)
"improvised music" (n.), 1926, probably from noodle (n.), on analogy of the suppleness of the food and that of the trills and improvised phrases. The verb is first attested 1937 (implied in noodling).

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noodle

noun
1. a ribbonlike strip of pasta 
2. informal terms for a human head [syn: attic] 

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Noodle

Noo"dle\, n. [Cf. Noddle, Noddy.] A simpleton; a blockhead; a stupid person; a ninny. [Low]

The chuckling grin of noodles. --Sydney Smith.

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Noodle

Noo"dle\, n. [G. nudel vermicelli.] A thin strip of dough, made with eggs, rolled up, cut into small pieces, and used in soup.

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