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Noodles
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
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verb (used without object)
1.
to improvise a musical passage in a casual manner, especially 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)
Verb phrase3.
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 followed by up): The architects noodled up a model of a solar house.
4.
noodle around, Informal. to play, experiment, or improvise.
Origin:
1935–40, Americanism; origin uncertain
1935–40, Americanism; origin uncertain
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Word Origin & History
noodle
"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).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Slang Dictionary
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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