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Noddy vs Neddy - What's the difference?

noddy | neddy |

As nouns the difference between noddy and neddy

is that noddy is a stupid or silly person while neddy is a donkey or ass.

noddy

English

Etymology 1

Probably a shortening of noddypoll, a now obsolete alteration of hoddypoll, "fumbling inept person".

Noun

(noddies)
  • A stupid or silly person.
  • * Burton
    • He made soft fellows stark noddies , and such as were foolish quite mad.
    (rfquotek, L'Estrange)

    Etymology 2

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    Noun

    (noddies)
  • Any of several stout-bodied, gregarious terns of the genera Anous'' and ''Procelsterna , found in tropical seas.
  • (dated) A small two-wheeled vehicle drawn by a single horse.
  • 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.
  • (obsolete, uncountable) An old card game.
    • (Halliwell)
    Derived terms
    * brown noddy, Anous stolidus * sooty noddy, Anous tenuirostris * black noddy, Anous minutus * blue noddy, Procelsterna cerulea * grey noddy, Procelsterna albivitta

    Etymology 3

    , coined by John Fiske in 1987.

    Noun

    (noddies)
  • (television) A cutaway scene of a television interviewer nodding, used to cover an editing gap in an interview.
    • Noddies are often filmed after the interview in question has finished.

    References

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    neddy

    English

    Noun

    (neddies)
  • A donkey or ass.
  • (Australia, slang) A horse, especially a racehorse.
  • * 1932 , , The Desert Column'', extracted in 2006, Rex Sadler, Tom Hayllar, ''In the Line of Fire: Real Stories of Australians at War, from Gallipoli to Vietnam , page 61,
    • Some of the boys whipped off their hats and laughingly smacked their neddies? rumps, for we hated using spurs on the poor thirsty beggars.
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , title=90 cadence , group=aus.bicycle , author=Fred Nieman , date=April 29 , year=2003 , passage=From my uninformed reading of cycliterature (and other stuff), if you are a mainly short-twitch muscle type - a sprinter - then your natural cadence will be higher that(sic) if you are a mainly long-twitch muscle type - a hill-climber, or in neddy -racing terms, a "stayer" (I think).   citation
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , title=Peter Holden moving to Now FM , group=aus.radio.broadcast , author=BearCave , date=January 8 , year=2007 , passage=AIRNews founder Arthur Stevens wishes Holden well adding, "We will miss his insights into the world of Aussie Rules Football and his understanding of the neddies and the Spring Racing Carnival. citation
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    • , title=We need a new grid ad , group=aus.tv , author=^Tems^ , date=March 23 , year=2009 , passage=I was up to 6 horses and figured to keep them fit and off the roids and put two in each race and get 1st and 2nd to build up the cash. Got home drunk saturday night saw a fake neddy at 4-1 so put all my $300k on it and lost.
    Glad I wasn't Jean Bridges and spent $300k of my real money citation
  • The horse races.
  • * 2010 , Peter Klein, Silk Chaser , Pan Macmillan Australia, page 272,
    • He?d usually be there at the same place most Saturdays and we ended up sharing a beer talking about the neddies . It just grew from there. I?d nod at him; ask him how he was going. We?d talk racing, have a dig at each other for backing losers.
  • (Australia, colloquial, slang, usually plural) Horsepower.
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , title=Heartstopping moment..... , group=aus.motorcycles , author=Graham Byrnes , date=December 3 , year=1997 , passage=Weird as it sounds, it was because you weren't going fast enough :-) I've found that if you wick it up too much exiting a curve you tend to do one of those feet off the pegs numbers. Fun, huh? Otoh, if you carry more corner speed the back is more likely to let go gradually, because the tyre is already closer to the edge, so it doesn't require a fist full of neddies to break it loose. I still wouldn't recommmend it for the road... citation
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    • , title=GT40 on ebay , group=aus.cars , author=Noddy nospam , date=March 24 , year=2007 , passage=No chance in hell, even if it was a Gurney Eagle engine. The only way you can get those sort of neddies out of a 302 Windsor would be boost. citation
  • An idiot; a stupid or contemptible person.
  • * 1967 , Royal Aero Club (Great Britain), Royal Aero Club of the United Kingdom, United Service and Royal Aero Club, Flight International , Volume 91, page 496,
    • The trouble is that the neddies in the Board of Trade would probably approve it.
  • * 1973 , , The Cloud Walker , Gollancz, 2011, unnumbered page,
    • “The neddies might call it a machine. They might think you guilty of machinism.”
    “Hang the stupid neddies !” Kieron carefully loosened the mooring, and the balloon rose.