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noddy

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈnɒdi/Sorted ddnoyStarts with NEnds with Y0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. A silly or stupid person; a fool, an idiot.

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • I graunt for my parte by fayth of my body / why where the deuyll is this horeſon nody
  • Hum[phrey]. If it be ſo, my friend, you vſe me fine, / VVhat do you thinke I am? / Iasp[er]. An arrant noddie / Hum. A vvord of obliquie, novv by Gods bodie, / I'le tell thy maiſter for I knovv thee vvell.
  • VVhy, vvhat a noddy have I been, to take this ſtrapper alvvays for a girl!

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