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Noddy vs Nuddy - What's the difference?

noddy | nuddy |

As nouns the difference between noddy and nuddy

is that noddy is a stupid or silly person while nuddy is only used in the phrase in the nuddy.

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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    nuddy

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Only used in the phrase in the nuddy