noodled
- 1Simple past and past participle of noodle.
The pianist noodled aimlessly between songs while the technicians fixed a cable.
Having noodled over the problem all weekend, she came back with a fresh approach.
Note
A regular form, so one spelling serves as both past and participle: she noodled, she has noodled. Whether there is an object changes the meaning. With one, a musician noodled a passage, or an American noodled a problem. Without one, someone simply noodled: played idly or, in British dialect, wasted time. A passive such as he was noodled belongs to the obsolete sense of being fooled or tricked.
noodled is a form of noodle
noodle, verb: To ponder or think, especially in an unsystematic or unproductive way; to muse. Full entry
- Spelling
- noodle → noodled: add -d
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