noddy
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- A silly or stupid person; a fool, an idiot.
- In full knave noddy: the jack or knave playing card.
- In full noddy-fifteen: a certain card game related to cribbage.
- In full noddy-fifteen: a certain card game related to cribbage: Synonym of sexual intercourse.
- Any of several stout-bodied, gregarious terns of the genus Anous found in tropical seas, especially the brown noddy or common noddy (Anous stolidus).
- A small two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse.
- Synonym of fellatio.
- Synonym of northern fulmar (“an Arctic seabird, Fulmarus glacialis”).
- 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.
- 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.
- In at noddy: a state of being asleep.
Adjective
- Foolish, silly, stupid.
- Drowsy, sleepy.
Verb
- Synonym of noddify (“to make (someone) into a noddy (noun sense 1), to make a fool of”)
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