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noddy

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Synonyms: soddy, neddy, poddy, toddy, roddy, doddy, hoddy, nodd, boddy, nuddy, snoddy

Antonyms: soddy, neddy, poddy, toddy, roddy, doddy, hoddy, nodd, boddy, nuddy, snoddy

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Noun

  1. A silly or stupid person; a fool, an idiot.
  2. In full knave noddy: the jack or knave playing card. In full noddy-fifteen: a certain card game related to cribbage. Synonym of sexual intercourse.
  3. In full knave noddy: the jack or knave playing card.
  4. In full noddy-fifteen: a certain card game related to cribbage. Synonym of sexual intercourse.
  5. Synonym of sexual intercourse.

Adjective

  1. Foolish, silly, stupid.

Verb

  1. Synonym of noddify (“to make (someone) into a noddy (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1), to make a fool of”)

Noun

  1. Any of several stout-bodied, gregarious terns of the genus Anous found in tropical seas, especially the brown noddy or common noddy (Anous stolidus).
  2. A small two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse.
  3. Synonym of fellatio.
  4. Synonym of northern fulmar (“an Arctic seabird, Fulmarus glacialis”).
  5. 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.
    • Noddies are often filmed after the interview in question has finished.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. In at noddy: a state of being asleep.

Adjective

  1. Drowsy, sleepy.

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