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noodlemania

noodlemania noun: love of noodles.

Noun

noodlemania (uncountable)

  1. (informal, rare) Love of noodles.
    • On the neighbor islands, noodlemania prevails...1999, Jeanette Foster, Jocelyn K. Fujii, Michael Shapiro, Frommer's 2000 Hawaii, page 15
    • He backs that up by recalling the impact he had on his cooking partner at the French Culinary Institute: The partner dropped out. Mr. Chang persisted and it paid off: Craft, Mercer Kitchen, Park Hyatt Tokyo (to refine his noodlemania), and Café Boulud employed him before he opted for independence...2007 May 18, Robin Finn, “Rising Star Knows What, Not Who, Is Cooking”, in New York Times

Origin of noodlemania

From noodle + -mania.

Questions about noodlemania

What does noodlemania mean?
Noodlemania means love of noodles.
What part of speech is noodlemania?
Noodlemania is a noun.

Words near noodlemania in the dictionary

  1. noodleheads
  2. noodleism
  3. noodleisms
  4. noodlelike
  5. noodleman
  6. noodlemania
  7. noodlemen
  8. noodler
  9. noodleries
  10. noodlers
  11. noodlery

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