noodle

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: noo=dle

CIDE DICTIONARY

noodle, n. [Cf. Noddle, Noddy.].

•  A simpleton; a blockhead; a stupid person; a ninny.  [1913 Webster]

  "The chuckling grin of noodles."  [1913 Webster]
•  The head; also, noddle; -- used jocosely or contemptuously; as, use your noodle.  [PJC]

noodle, n. [G. nudel vermicelli.].

 A thin strip of dough, made with eggs, rolled up, cut into small pieces, and used in soup.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

noodle, n. a strip or ring of pasta.

noodle, n.
1 a simpleton.
2 sl. the head.

Etymology

18th c.: orig. unkn.

THESAURUS

noodle

Italian paste, bean, belfry, brain, brow, chowderhead, chucklehead, chump, conk, crown, dome, dope, dumbhead, dumpling, dunderhead, encephalon, fedellini, fettuccine, gray matter, head, headpiece, knaydlach, lasagne, macaroni, matzo balls, noddle, noddy, noggin, noodles, organ of thought, pasta, paste, pate, poll, ravioli, ridge, sconce, seat of thought, sensation, sensorium, sensory, spaetzle, spaghetti, spaghettini, stupe, vermicelli, won ton, ziti

ROGET THESAURUS

noodle

Fool

N fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton, witling, dizzard, donkey, ass, ninny, ninnyhammer, chowderhead, chucklehead, dolt, booby, Tom Noddy, looby, hoddy-doddy, noddy, nonny, noodle, nizy, owl, goose, goosecap, imbecile, gaby, radoteur, nincompoop, badaud, zany, trifler, babbler, pretty fellow, natural, niais, child, baby, infant, innocent, milksop, sop, oaf, lout, loon, lown, dullard, doodle, calf, colt, buzzard, block, put, stick, stock, numps, tony, bull head, dunderhead, addlehead, blockhead, dullhead, loggerhead, jolthead, jolterhead, beetlehead, beetlebrain, grosshead, muttonhead, noodlehead, giddyhead, numbskull, thickskull, lackbrain, shallowbrain, dimwit, halfwit, lackwit, dunderpate, lunkhead sawney, gowk, clod, clod-hopper, clod-poll, clot-poll, clot-pate, bull calf, gawk, Gothamite, lummox, rube, men of Boeotia, wise men of Gotham, un sot a triple etage, sot, jobbernowl, changeling, mooncalf, gobemouche, dotard, driveler, old fogey, old woman, crock, crone, grandmother, cotquean, henhussy, incompetent (insanity), greenhorn, dunce, lubber, madman, one who will not set the Thames on fire, one who did not invent gunpowder, qui n'a pas invente' la poudre, no conjuror, fortuna favet fatuis, les fous font les festinas et les sages les mangen, nomina stultorum parietibus harrent, stultorum plena sunt omnia.