Doodly vs Noodly - What's the difference?
doodly | noodly |
Like a doodle; scribbly.
* 2007 , Aidan Chambers, This Is All (page 257)
of or pertaining to noodles
(music) loopy, containg intertwined loops
* {{quote-news, year=1998, date=January 16, author=John Corbett, title=Cradle of Electronica, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=He felt the pangs intensifying, as if the noodly , repetitive sounds were some lost language he'd known but forgotten, a dialect discarded or repressed. }}
* {{quote-news, year=2002, date=May 17, author=Peter Margasak, title=Cornershop, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=Both of those albums contained lots of what's charitably called filler--in the form of noodly hip-hop-inspired loops that never went anywhere--and it took the band five years to release the new Handcream for a Generation (Wiija/Beggars Banquet). }}
floppy, droopy
* {{quote-news, year=2006, date=May 12, author=Liz Armstrong, Heather Kenny, title=Big Imagination, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=A lot of her clothes move strangely: one dress has an exaggerated, uneven bustle, upon which is layered a long skirt made of elastic, resulting in a motion that Glaum-Lathbury describes as "wiggly and noodly ." }}
As adjectives the difference between doodly and noodly
is that doodly is like a doodle; scribbly while noodly is of or pertaining to noodles.doodly
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(en adjective)- I chose a glazed pottery egg, partly because I liked the weight of it — heavy for its size — and because it sat so neatly in my hand, but mainly because I liked the strange doodly pattern drawn on it in greys and washed-out blues
noodly
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