Noddy

Noddy

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Noddy may refer to:

  • Noddy (card game), a 16th century English ancestor of cribbage
  • Noddy (tern), several species of tropical seabirds of the family Sternidae in the genera Anous, Procelsterna, and Gygis
  • Noddy (TV interview technique), a production technique used to create the illusion of a seamless dialogue
  • Noddy, an application for the Memotech MTX series of microcomputers
  • Noddy suit, nickname for a type of NBC suit with a pointed hood used by the British Armed Forces
  • NODDY, codename for a British Secret Intelligence Service operation to penetrate the Polish security establishment in the early 1960s
  • Swastikas for Noddy, an album by English band Current 93

Fictional characters

  • Noddy (character), a wooden boy who lives in Toyland, created by children's author Enid Blyton
  • Noddy, nickname of Nicodemus Boffin, from the novel Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

People

  • Noddy, nickname of Australian rugby league player Brett Kimmorley
  • Noddy Holder, English musician and actor, best known as vocalist and guitarist with Slade

Vehicles

  • Noddy, a small, usually two-wheeled, one-horse hackney carriage formerly used in Ireland and Scotland
  • Noddy bike, nickname for the Velocette LE motorcycles formerly used by the British police
  • Noddy (log canoe), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985

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  • Noddy™ — [Noddy] a character in a series of young children’s books by Enid Blyton, the first of which was published in 1949. Noddy is a small boy with a large head on which he wears a long blue cap with a bell on the end of it. He lives in Toytown and… …   Useful english dictionary

  • Noddy — Nod dy, n.; pl. {Noddies}. [Prob. fr. nod to incline the head, either as in assent, or from drowsiness.] 1. A simpleton; a fool. L Estrange. Syn: tomnoddy. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zo[ o]l.) (a) Any tern of the genus {Anous}, as {Anous stolidus}. (b)… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • noddy — [näd′ē] n. pl. noddies [< ? NOD + Y3] 1. a fool; simpleton 2. any of a genus (Anous) of tropical terns with dark body feathers and pale gray crown …   English World dictionary

  • Noddy — Oui Oui Pour les articles homonymes, voir Oui Oui (homonymie). Oui Oui Personnage de Oui Oui …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Noddy{™} — a character in a series of young children’s books by Enid Blyton, the first of which was published in 1949. Noddy is a small boy with a large head on which he wears a long blue cap with a bell on the end of it. He lives in Toytown and drives a… …   Universalium

  • noddy —    British    a policeman    By translation from PC Plod (see plod) whose exemplary behaviour graced the Noddy books:     ... hardly worth the shoe leather of the luckless noddy taking statements. (Blacker, 1992) …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • noddy — I. /ˈnɒdi/ (say nodee) noun (plural noddies) 1. any of several dusky, white capped terns of the genus Anous, frequenting warm coastal and offshore areas, usually so fearless of humans as to seem stupid. 2. a fool or simpleton. {? British noddy… …  

  • noddy — /nod ee/, n., pl. noddies. 1. any of several dark bodied terns of the genera Anous and Micranous found about the coasts and islands in warm seas of both the New and Old Worlds, often so tame as to seem stupid. 2. a fool or simpleton; noodle.… …   Universalium

  • noddy — Mawdesley Glossary a fool. An ignorant person, 1st of April Fool April day noddy …   English dialects glossary

  • noddy — n British a buffoon, simpleton, clumsy or ungainly person. In modern usage the term has been specifically applied to low ranking police officers by members of the CID and public. Noddy is an archaic rustic term for a simple minded or cloddish… …   Contemporary slang

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