stupid person, fool; type dark-colored aquatic bird, tropical tern
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Noddy Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(n.)
The arctic fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis). Sometimes also applied to other sea birds.
The arctic fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis). Sometimes also applied to other sea birds.
(n.)
Any tern of the genus Anous, as A. stolidus.
Any tern of the genus Anous, as A. stolidus.
(n.)
An old game at cards.
An old game at cards.
(n.)
An inverted pendulum consisting of a short vertical flat spring which supports a rod having a bob at the top; -- used for detecting and measuring slight horizontal vibrations of a body to which it is attached.
An inverted pendulum consisting of a short vertical flat spring which supports a rod having a bob at the top; -- used for detecting and measuring slight horizontal vibrations of a body to which it is attached.
(n.)
A small two-wheeled one-horse vehicle.
A small two-wheeled one-horse vehicle.
(n.)
A simpleton; a fool.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutA simpleton; a fool.
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.
2. (zo?l.) (a) any tern of the genus anous, as a. stolidus. (b) the arctic fulmar (fulmarus glacialis). sometimes also applied to other sea birds.
3. an old game at cards.
4. a small two-wheeled one-horse vehicle.
5. an inverted pendulum consisting of a short vertical flat spring which supports a rod having a bob at the top; -- used for detecting and measuring slight horizontal vibrations of a body to which it is attached.
Noddy Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries
/nod'ee/ adj. [UK: from the children's books] 1. Small and un-useful, but demonstrating a point. Noddy programs are often written by people learning a new language or system. The archetypal noddy program is hello world. Noddy code may be used to demonstrate a feature or bug of a compiler. May be used of real hardware or software to imply that it isn't worth using. "This editor's a bit noddy." 2. A program that is more or less instant to produce. In this use, the term does not necessarily connote uselessness, but describes a hack sufficiently trivial that it can be written and debugged while carrying on (and during the space of) a normal conversation. "I'll just throw together a noddy awk script to dump all the first fields." In North America this might be called a mickey mouse program. See toy program.
Noddy Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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
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