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Voddy vs Noddy - What's the difference?

voddy | noddy |

As nouns the difference between voddy and noddy

is that voddy is vodka while noddy is a stupid or silly person.

voddy

English

Alternative forms

*voddie

Noun

  • (UK, informal) Vodka.
  • * 1993 , Anne Weale, Footprints in the Sand?
    • 'There's sure to be a fridge for keeping the beer cold.' 'I don't drink beer — it's fattening. Voddy and lime is my tipple.
  • * 2004 , Catherine Bateson, The Air Dancer of Glass?
    • A man, only a few metres away, standing up in plain view, swigged on a bottle of voddy . Talk about careless! Egan couldn't believe his eyes.
  • * 2005 , Jack Leonard, Bad Altitude
    • “Oh yeah, I owe you for a bottle of voddy by the way.” “Why?” he asked, screwing his face up in puzzlement.
  • *2014 , (Will Self), The Guardian , 15 Jun 2014:
  • *:True, we are fond of a voddie or nine, but we know how to handle our liquor, with the emphasis being on "handle".

    • 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

    ?

    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.

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