3 February 2018

noddle

[nod-l]

noun, Older Slang.

1. the head or brain.

Origin of noddle

late Middle English

1375-1425; late Middle English nodel

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Examples from the Web for noddle

Historical Examples

I remember him because it took some explainin’ to get the bet through his noddle.
Thoroughbreds
W. A. Fraser

Don’t you see that I may have become a rather desirable match for a noddle ?
Little Dorrit
Charles Dickens

And now the sun declines between the noddle Fell and Bleaberry.
The Shadow of a Crime
Hall Caine

Anagram

old den
do lend

Today’s quote

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.

– Henry David Thoreau

On this day

3 February 1830 – Greece achieves full independence from the Ottoman Empire following Great Britain, France and Russia agreeing to the London Protocol (1830). This followed on from Greece obtaining internal autonomy through the London Protocol (1829) on 22 March 1829. The borders of Greece were finalised in the London Conference of 1832.

3 February 1904 – birth of Charles Arthur ‘Pretty Boy’ Floyd, American gangster. Shot to death by FBI agents in Ohio on 22 October 1934.

3 February 1919 – Inaugural meeting of the League of Nations (the predecessor of the United Nations), which was headed by US President Woodrow Wilson, aimed at promoting world peace and security.

3 February 1959 – ‘The Day the Music Died’. Plane crash during a storm near Clear Lake, Iowa, claims the lives of some of America’s finest rock and roll stars: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson). The pilot, Roger Peterson, also died. Another rock star, Dion Di Mucci, decided not to board the plane. The stars had performed at Clear Lake as part of ‘The Winter Dance Party Tour’ and were on their way to the next venue. Don McLean’s iconic song ‘American Pie’ paid homage to the tragedy, declaring it the ‘Day the Music Died’.

3 February 1966 – The Soviet Union achieves the first moon landing when the unmanned Lunix 9 spacecraft touches down on the moon’s Ocean of Storms area.