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noddify (third-person singular simple present noddifies, present participle noddifying, simple past and past participle noddified)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To make (someone) into a noddy (“silly or stupid person”); to make a fool of, to make a monkey out of.

   Synonym: (obsolete, rare) noddy

   • 1583, Brian Melbancke, Philotimus. The Warre betwixt Nature and Fortune, London:  […] Roger Warde, page 32:

     If I bee zealous in affection, and iealous of her faithe, I ſmoulder away inwardly, without any remedy: If ſhe make me weare hoꝛnes and I not perceiue it, I am noddified of her, and pointed at of others: and so, they crowne a cuckold with a combe, and this is their deſire.

   • 1621, Thomas Fitzherbert, chapter VI, in The Obmvtesce of F. T. to the Epphata of D. Collins, page 145:

     […] ſo as M. Collins who hath deifyed him, calling him the diuine man, might rather haue noddified him, and himſelf for company, when he meant to noddify me.

   • 1668, Andrew Honyman, “The Preface”, in A Survey of the Inſolent and Infamous Libel, Entituled, Naphtali, &c., Edinburgh, page 8:

     […] and howſoever the weaker brethren muſt be entertained with fair words, and noddified with notional diſputes anent their parity with the beſt, that they may think themſelves ſomewhat: […]

   • 1669, James Stewart, “Some Animadverſions upon the Surveyer's Virulent preface and Title-page” (chapter XXI), in Jus populi vindicatum, London, page 446:

     And now laboureth to noddify all into a conſent & congratulatory acquieſcence in his advancement and dignity.

Further reading

• “noddify, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.