Noodle vs Galah - What's the difference?
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(usually in plural) A string or strip of pasta.
(colloquial, dated) A person with poor judgement; a fool.
* Sydney Smith
* Charles Dickens, Hard Times
(colloquial) The brain, the head.
(colloquial) A pool noodle.
(fishing) To fish (usually for very large catfish) without any equipment other than the fisherman's own body
To think or ponder.
To fiddle, play with, or mess around.
To improvise music.
(Australia) To fossick, especially for opals.
* 1989 , Association for Industrial Archaeology, Industrial archaeology review , Volume 12,
* 1994 , RonMoon, Outback Australia: a Lonely Planet Australia guide ,
* 2006 , Marele Day, Susan Bradley Smith, Fay Knight (editors), Making Waves: 10 Years of the Byron Bay Writers Festival ,
A pink and grey species of cockatoo, Eolophus roseicapilla , native to Australia.
* 2005 , David Lindenmayer, Mark A. Burgman, Practical Conservation Biology ,
(Australia, slang) A fool, an idiot.
* 1991 , , River of the Sun ,
* 1999 , , Solomon's Song ,
* 2006 , John Chalmers, The Professional Guest ,
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Noodle is a related term of galah.
As nouns the difference between noodle and galah
is that noodle is (usually in plural) a string or strip of pasta while galah is a pink and grey species of cockatoo, eolophus roseicapilla , native to australia.As a verb noodle
is (fishing) to fish (usually for very large catfish) without any equipment other than the fisherman's own body.noodle
English
Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia noodle)- She slurped a long noodle up out of her soup.
- the chuckling grin of noodles
- If that portrait could speak, sir — but it has the advantage over the original of not possessing the power of committing itself and disgusting others, — it would testify, that a long period has elapsed since I first habitually addressed it as the picture of a noodle .
Quotations
(English Citations of "noodle")Derived terms
* egg noodle * noodle bar * noodlehead * pool noodleSee also
* pasta *Verb
(Noodling)- Fred had several lacerations on his hands from noodling for flathead in the river.
- He noodled over the problem for a day or two before making a decision.
- "Noodle that thought around for a while" said Dr. Johnson to his Biblical Interpretations class
- If the machine is really broken, noodling with the knobs is not going to fix it.
- He has been noodling with that trumpet all afternoon, and every bit of it sounds awful.
- On the Olympic Field the tour-group is permitted to ‘noodle ’ (hunt for opals) on the waste or mullock heaps ...
- In Coober Pedy, noodling' for opals is generally discouraged, although a few tourist spots, such as the Old Timers Mine, have ' noodle pits open to the public.
- We learn how Lennon used to noodle (fossick) for opal as a kid, how camels were for a long time the only form of transportation, and where the name 'Coober Pedy' came from.
Derived terms
* noodlerReferences
galah
English
(wikipedia galah)Noun
(en noun)page 175,
- The Galah' has benefited from changes in the environment brought about by human activities (Rowley, 1990; Saunders and Ingram, 1995; Forshaw, 2002). The ' Galah ?s diet is predominantly seeds, especially those from cereal crops and agricultural weeds.
- That galah nearly drove me off the road.
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- ‘Don?t just stand there, you great galah , lend a hand here!’ Billy Kemp shoved Edmund towards the longboat. ‘Get it free. The lads are bringing up the casks.’
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- ‘But, Sergeant, I reckon a man would look a proper galah falling about with an empty rifle, going click, click, click, “bang you?re dead” when he wasn?t doing rifle drill on parade, like when it?s not official, know what I mean?’ one of the infantrymen volunteers.
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- ‘Then you will strut around like a great galah tryin? to impress the sheilas about what a fuckin? big iron ore miner you are.’