Noddy vs Roddy - What's the difference?
noddy | roddy |
A stupid or silly person.
* Burton
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.
(television) A cutaway scene of a television interviewer nodding, used to cover an editing gap in an interview.
As a noun noddy
is a stupid or silly person or noddy can be any of several stout-bodied, gregarious terns of the genera anous'' and ''procelsterna , found in tropical seas or noddy can be (television) a cutaway scene of a television interviewer nodding, used to cover an editing gap in an interview.As a proper noun roddy is
or (m).noddy
English
Etymology 1
Probably a shortening of noddypoll, a now obsolete alteration of hoddypoll, "fumbling inept person".Noun
(noddies)- He made soft fellows stark noddies , and such as were foolish quite mad.
Etymology 2
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(noddies)- (Halliwell)
Derived terms
* brown noddy, Anous stolidus * sooty noddy, Anous tenuirostris * black noddy, Anous minutus * blue noddy, Procelsterna cerulea * grey noddy, Procelsterna albivittaEtymology 3
, coined by John Fiske in 1987.Noun
(noddies)- Noddies are often filmed after the interview in question has finished.
