noddies

Noun (1)

noddy (countable and uncountable, plural noddies)

1. (archaic, countable) A silly or stupid person; a fool, an idiot.
   • I graunt for my parte by fayth of my body / why where the deuyll is this horeſon nody1534, John Heywood, A Play of Loue, […], [London]: […] W[illiam] Rastell, →OCLC, signature C.iii., recto

   Synonyms:

   addle-brain, addlehead, addle pate, airhead, baboon, beanbrain, beetlebrain, beetlehead, berk, bimbo

2. (countable, historical) In full knave noddy: the jack or knave playing card.
   • The ſpout of ſport, and follies turtle Doue, / Noddie turn'd vp, all made, yet loſe the tricke.1611, Glareanus Vadianus [pseudonym], “A Sceleton or Bare Anatomie of the Punctures and Iunctures of Mr. Thomas Coryate of Odcombe, […]”, in Thomas Coryate [i.e., Thomas Coryat], Coryats Crudities...
3. (historical, uncountable) In full noddy-fifteen: a certain card game related to cribbage.
   • [W]ell let not me take you at Noddy anie more, leaſt I preſent you to the pariſh for a gamſter, this is the ninth ſet that you haue loſt, and yet you will not leaue off.[1589?], Cutbert Curry-knaue [pseudonym; Thomas Nashe], An Almond for a Parrat, or Cutbert Curry-knaues Almes. […], [London]: […] [Eliot’s Court Press], →OCLC, folio 18, verso
   1. (broadly, historical, obsolete, slang) Synonym of sexual intercourse.
      • I left her at Cardes, ſhee'll ſit vp till you come, becauſe ſhee'll haue you play a game at Noddie; […]1601–1602 (date written), attributed to Thomas Dekker and/or Thomas Middleton, Blurt Master-Constable. Or The Spaniards Night-walke. […], London: […] [Edward Allde] for Henry Rockytt, […], published...

Noun (2)

noddy (plural noddies)

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).
   • VVe savv no Land this Day, but ſavv a great many Snakes and ſome VVhales. VVe ſavv alſo ſome Boobies, and Noddy-birds; and in the Night caught one of theſe laſt. […] The Top or Crovvn of the Head of this Noddy was Coal-black, having alſo ſmall black Streaks round about and cloſe to the Eyes; and...1703, William Dampier, chapter III, in A Voyage to New Holland, &c. in the Year 1699. […]. Vol. III, London: […] James Knapton, […], →OCLC, page 142
2. (Ireland, Scotland, historical) A small two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse.
   • [S]he has brought over a nevv language vvith her. […] VVhy a new kind of a London Engliſh, that's no more like our Iriſh Engliſh, than a coxcomb's fine gilded chariot like a Glaſſmanogue [i.e., Phibsborough, Dublin] noddy.1761 (first performance), Charles Macklin, The True-born Irishman; or, Irish Fine Lady. A Comedy of Two Acts, Dublin: Sold by the booksellers, published 1783, →OCLC, Act I, page 8

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