noodle

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noun

Plural noun:

noodles

1.
(plural normally)(usually in the plural) A string or flat strip of pasta or other dough, usually cooked (at least initially) by boiling, and served in soup or in a dry form mixed with a sauce and other ingredients.
She slurped a long noodle up out of her soup.
She is cooking noodles for dinner.
2.
(broadly)(by extension) An object which is long and thin like a noodle (sense 1).
3.
(archaic)A dumpling cooked by boiling and served in soup; a knaidel or knödel.
4.
(slang)The penis.
5.
(slang)(furry fandom) A long and slender dragon, usually an eastern dragon.
6.
(Internet, endearing, humorous)(Internet slang, endearing, humorous) A borzoi dog.
7.
(dated, informal)A person with poor judgment; a fool.
8.
(informal, slang)The brain; the head.
9.
(informal)(chiefly jazz) An improvised passage of music played on an instrument; also, a series of ornamental notes played on an instrument; a trill.

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verb

V_es/s

noodles

V_ing/Gerund

noodling

V_ed/pp

noodled

1.
(informal, obsolete, transitive)To fool or trick (someone).
Đồng nghĩa: dupe
2.
(British, dialectal, informal, intransitive)To engage in frivolous behavior; to fool around or waste time.
3.
(Shetland, ambitransitive, informal)(ambitransitive, Shetland, singing) To hum or sing (a tune) at a low pitch or volume.
4.
(informal, transitive)To play (a musical instrument or passage of music) or to sing (a passage of music) in an improvisatory or lighthearted manner; also, to play (a series of ornamental notes) on an instrument.
5.
(US, informal, transitive)To ponder or think about (something).
“Noodle that thought around for a while,” said Dr. Johnson to his Biblical Interpretations class.
Đồng nghĩa: mull over
6.
(informal, intransitive)To play a musical instrument or to sing in an improvisatory or lighthearted manner; also, to play a series of ornamental notes on an instrument.
He has been noodling with that trumpet all afternoon, and every bit of it sounds awful.
7.
(US, informal, intransitive)To ponder or think, especially in an unproductive or unsystematic manner; to muse.
He noodled over the problem for a day or two before making a decision.
8.
(US, informal, intransitive)To attempt in an informal or uncertain manner; to fiddle.
If the machine is really broken, noodling with the knobs is not going to fix it.
9.
(US, informal, intransitive)Often followed by about or around: to mess around, to play.
10.
(Australia, informal, transitive)To search (mullock (“mining or ore processing waste”)) for opals.
11.
(Australia, informal, transitive)To obtain (an opal) by searching through mullock.
12.
(Australia, also, figuratively, informal, transitive)To clear extraneous material from (an opal).

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ine-pro Borrowed from Dutch noedel (noodle), or from its etymon German Nudel (piece of pasta, noodle); further etymology uncertain, probably a variant of Knödel (dumpling), from knödel (dumpling; small knot), and then either: