noddles

Noun

noddle (plural noddles)

1. (UK, informal) The head; the part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs.
   • But being restored to the open aire, the cafe with him was little altred; for no roofe had he to hide his noddle in, or whither he might go to set up his rest, but in the streets under a bulk he should have been constrainted to have kenneld […]1596, Tho[mas] Nashe, “Dialogus”, in Haue with You to Saffron-Walden. Or, Gabriell Harveys Hunt is Up. […], London: […] John Danter, →OCLC; republished as J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, Have with...
2. (UK, informal) The head as the seat of mental capacity or intellect.
   • No doubt (said the Barber) but I wonder not so much at the Knights madnesse, as the Squires simplicity, that beleeves so in the Islands, and I think all the Art in the world will not drive that out of his noddle.1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], translated by Thomas Shelton, The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount...
3. (obsolete) The back of the head; nape.
   • They muste absteine from ouer much slepe, and not to slepe in the day time, nor [upon] the noddle of the head […]1562, Guglielmo Gratarolo, translated by William Fulwood, The Castel of Memorie, volume I

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