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名詞

noddle (複数形 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.
   • 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 You to Saffron-Walden (Miscellaneous Tracts; Temp. Eliz. かつ Jac. I), [London: s.n., 1870], →OCLC, page 111:

     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 […]

2. (UK, informal) The head as the seat of mental capacity or intellect.
   • 1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes]; Thomas Shelton, transl., The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC, page 123:

     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.

   • 1762, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XXXVII, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume V, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […], →OCLC, page 128:

     Novv vvhat can have got into that precious noddle of thine, my dear brother Toby? cried my father, mentally.

3. (obsolete) The back of the head; nape.
   • 1562, Guglielmo Gratarolo, William Fulwood, transl., The Castel of Memorie‎^[1], volume I:

     They muste absteine from ouer much slepe, and not to slepe in the day time, nor [upon] the noddle of the head […]

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