noddy

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈnɒdi/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈnɑdi/, [-ɾi] Homophones: knotty, naughty (cot–caught merger, flapping) Rhymes: -ɒdi Hyphenation: nod‧dy === Etymology 1 === Noun sense 1 is possibly from nod (“to incline the head up and down; to gradually fall asleep”) +‎ -y (suffix forming diminutive nouns or familiar names); or a shortening of noddypoll, an obsolete alteration of hoddypoll (“fumbling, inept person”). The origin of noun sense 2 is uncertain; it is possibly derived from sense 1. Compare muggins (“fool, idiot; card game based on building in suits or matching exposed cards, the object being to get rid of one’s cards”). The origin of the adjective is uncertain; it is possibly also from nod (verb) +‎ -y (suffix meaning ‘of or relating to’ forming adjectives). The verb is derived from noun sense 1. ==== Noun ==== noddy (countable and uncountable, plural noddies) (countable, archaic) A silly or stupid person; a fool, an idiot. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idiot (card games, historical) (countable) In full knave noddy: the jack or knave playing card. (uncountable) In full noddy-fifteen: a certain card game related to cribbage. (by extension, slang, obsolete) Synonym of sexual intercourse. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Adjective ==== noddy (comparative more noddy, superlative most noddy) (England, regional) Foolish, silly, stupid. ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== noddy (third-person singular simple present noddies, present participle noddying, simple past and past participle noddied) (transitive, obsolete, rare) Synonym of noddify (“to make (someone) into a noddy (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1), to make a fool of”) === Etymology 2 === From nod (“to incline the head up and down; to gradually fall asleep”) +‎ -y (suffix forming diminutive nouns or familiar names; and meaning ‘of or relating to’ forming adjectives). Noun sense 1 (“tern of the genus Anous”) possibly refers to the nodding behaviour of the birds during courtship. Sense 3 (“fellatio”) refers to the nodding motion of the head of a person performing the sex act. Sense 5 (“cutaway scene of a television interviewer nodding”) was coined by the English cultural theorist and media scholar John Fiske (1939–2021) in 1987. Sense 6.2 (“state of being asleep”) is possibly a pun on etymology 1, noun sense 2.2.1 (“sexual intercourse”). ==== Noun ==== noddy (plural noddies) Any of several stout-bodied, gregarious terns of the genus Anous found in tropical seas, especially the brown noddy or common noddy (Anous stolidus). (Ireland, Scotland, road transport, historical) A small two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse. (MLE, slang) Synonym of fellatio. (Newfoundland, Northeastern US) Synonym of northern fulmar (“an Arctic seabird, Fulmarus glacialis”). (UK, television, informal) A cutaway scene of a television interviewer nodding at the person being interviewed (or sometimes the interviewee nodding at the interviewer), often used to cover an editing gap in an interview. Synonyms: nodder, noddy headshot, noddy-shot, nod shot (obsolete) In clockmaking and watchmaking: an inverted pendulum consisting of a short, vertical, flat spring which supports a rod having a bob at the top, which is used for detecting and measuring slight horizontal vibrations of a body to which it is attached. (rare) In at noddy: a state of being asleep. ===== Hyponyms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Adjective ==== noddy (comparative more noddy, superlative most noddy) (archaic) Drowsy, sleepy. ===== Translations ===== === References === === Further reading === Anous on Wikipedia.Wikipedia noddy (card game) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia nod shot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Procelsterna on Wikipedia.Wikipedia noddy (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia “noddy” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.