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puhekieltä A string or strip of pasta.
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She slurped a long noodle up out of her soup.
puhekieltä A person with poor judgement; a fool.
Sydney Smith
- the chuckling grin of noodles
Charles Dickens, Hard Times
- If that portrait could speak, sir — but it has the advantage over the original of not possessing the power of committing itself and disgusting others, — it would testify, that a long period has elapsed since I first habitually addressed it as the picture of a noodle.
puhekieltä The brain, the head.
puhekieltä A pool noodle.
To think or ponder.
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He noodled over the problem for a day or two before making a decision.
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"Noodle that thought around for a while" said Dr. Johnson to his Biblical Interpretations class
To fiddle, play with, or mess around.
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If the machine is really broken, noodling with the knobs is not going to fix it.
To improvise music.
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He has been noodling with that trumpet all afternoon, and every bit of it sounds awful.
puhekieltä To fish (usually for very large catfish) without any equipment other than the fisherman's own body
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Fred had several lacerations on his hands from noodling for flathead in the river.
puhekieltä To fossick, especially for opals.
1989, Association for Industrial Archaeology, Industrial archaeology review, Volume 12,
- On the Olympic Field the tour-group is permitted to ‘noodle’ (hunt for opals) on the waste or mullock heaps ...
1994, RonMoon, Outback Australia: a Lonely Planet Australia guide,
- In Coober Pedy, noodling for opals is generally discouraged, although a few tourist spots, such as the Old Timers Mine, have noodle pits open to the public.
2006, Marele Day, Susan Bradley Smith, Fay Knight (editors), Making Waves: 10 Years of the Byron Bay Writers Festival ,
- We learn how Lennon used to noodle (fossick) for opal as a kid, how camels were for a long time the only form of transportation, and where the name 'Coober Pedy' came from.
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