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Moodle vs Noodle - What's the difference?

moodle | noodle |

As verbs the difference between moodle and noodle

is that moodle is to dawdle aimlessly, to idle time away while noodle is to fish (usually for very large catfish) without any equipment other than the fisherman's own body.

As a noun noodle is

a string or strip of pasta.

moodle

English

Verb

(moodl)
  • To dawdle aimlessly, to idle time away.

    • Quotations

    * (1921) "That old one who saw you out of your shell has gone off to moodle about doing nothing." Back to Methuselah v. 223 * (1928) "Napoleon often moodled about for a week at a time doing nothing but play with his children or read trash or waste his time helplessly." Intelligent Woman’s Guide Socialism lxix. 328 * (1938) "So you see, imagination needs moodling, -long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering." If you want to write - Brenda Ueland [http://www.womenfolk.com/creativity/moodling.htm

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    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