noddles

plural of noddle
as in heads
the upper or front part of the body that contains the brain, the major sense organs, and the mouth tapped his noddle to indicate he was thinking

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Noun
  • Bathrooms have soaking tubs and separate shower areas, rainforest shower heads, lighted make-up mirrors, and plush robes.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Sep. 2026
  • When a Black professor suggests that the protesting students are infringing on their classmates’ right to use shared areas, her white counterparts shake their heads in disgust for her refusal to capitulate to progressive groupthink.
    Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Anyone who has worked with fresh pasta knows the line between al dente and flabby noodles is infinitesimally fine.
    Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The pasta—a hair clump of noodles in a soupy, sweetish tomato sauce—came in one of those parsimonious bowls with a small hollow in the middle and a rim as broad as Saturn’s rings.
    Ruby Tandoh, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • In addition to tomatoes and cucumbers, gardeners can expect abundant harvests of eggplants, beans, squash, and peppers throughout September, as fall crops move into the picture!
    Anthony Reardon, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Typically made with commodity-quality beans, this potent cup is brewed in a metal pot or filtered through cloth and sweetened with panela (unrefined cane sugar).
    Nikkita Nair, Saveur, 10 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • At trial, prosecutors laid out evidence to show how the dimensions of the hatchet matched the dimensions of the injuries on Andrew and Abby’s skulls, per CBS News.
    Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Naturally, the privilege of drilling your marketing messages into the skulls of TV’s last great mass audience comes at a price.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 9 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The two domes that once housed the San Onofre nuclear reactor cores will start coming down early next year.
    Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Their prototype domes are only about the size of a wine cork at this point, but their compressive strength is comparable to low-grade concrete.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2026
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“Noddles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noddles. Accessed 20 Sep. 2026.

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