Associations to the word «Noddy»
Wiktionary
NODDY, noun. A stupid or silly person.
NODDY, noun. Any of several stout-bodied, gregarious terns of the genera Anous and Procelsterna, found in tropical seas.
NODDY, noun. (dated) A small two-wheeled vehicle drawn by a single horse.
NODDY, noun. 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, noun. (obsolete) (uncountable) An old card game.
NODDY, noun. (television) A cutaway scene of a television interviewer nodding, used to cover an editing gap in an interview.
NODDY SUIT, noun. (UK) (military) (informal) A kind of NBC suit with a pointed hood.
NODDY SUITS, noun. Plural of Noddy suit
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.