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Maggie vs Noodle - What's the difference?

maggie | noodle |

As nouns the difference between maggie and noodle

is that maggie is one of several kinds of bird in the family corvidae, especially pica pica while noodle is (usually in plural) a string or strip of pasta.

As a verb noodle is

(fishing) to fish (usually for very large catfish) without any equipment other than the fisherman's own body.

maggie

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • .
  • * 1986 , The Lost Language of Cranes , Houghton Mifflin (1997), ISBN 0395877334, page 127:
    • Maggie'. Never in her life had she heard her mother called ' Maggie . It was a name from her youth, that dead time Jerene had never been allowed to talk about [- - -]. Her mother was Margaret now.
  • * 2004 , Jigs & Reels , Doubleday, ISBN 0385606427, page 81:
    • I could tell that some of the guests were confused by the name of Maggie ?no-one had called her by that clunky, unfashionable name in years?
  • , former British prime minister

    • noodle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia noodle)
  • (usually in plural) A string or strip of pasta.
    • She slurped a long noodle up out of her soup.
  • (colloquial, dated) A person with poor judgement; a fool.
  • * Sydney Smith
    • the chuckling grin of noodles
  • * Charles Dickens, Hard Times
    • 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 .
  • (colloquial) The brain, the head.
  • (colloquial) A pool noodle.

    • Quotations

    (English Citations of "noodle")

    Derived terms

    * egg noodle * noodle bar * noodlehead * pool noodle

    See also

    * pasta *

    Verb

    (Noodling)
  • (fishing) To fish (usually for very large catfish) without any equipment other than the fisherman's own body
    • Fred had several lacerations on his hands from noodling for flathead in the river.
  • To think or ponder.
    • 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
  • To fiddle, play with, or mess around.
    • If the machine is really broken, noodling with the knobs is not going to fix it.
  • To improvise music.
    • He has been noodling with that trumpet all afternoon, and every bit of it sounds awful.
  • (Australia) To fossick, especially for opals.
  • * 1989 , Association for Industrial Archaeology, Industrial archaeology review , Volume 12,
    • On the Olympic Field the tour-group is permitted to ‘noodle ’ (hunt for opals) on the waste or mullock heaps ...
  • * 1994 , RonMoon, Outback Australia: a Lonely Planet Australia guide ,
    • 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.
  • * 2006 , Marele Day, Susan Bradley Smith, Fay Knight (editors), Making Waves: 10 Years of the Byron Bay Writers Festival ,
    • 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

    * noodler

    References