Noodle vs Dope - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between noodle and dope

is that noodle is a string or strip of pasta while dope is any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.

As verbs the difference between noodle and dope

is that noodle is to fish (usually for very large catfish) without any equipment other than the fisherman's own body while dope is to affect with drugs.

As an adjective dope is

great, amazing or extraordinary.

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

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

dope

English

Noun

(uncountable) Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.

(uncountable) An absorbent material used to hold a liquid.

(uncountable, aeronautics) Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen,

(uncountable, slang) Any illicit or narcotic drug that produces euphoria or satisfies an addiction; particularly heroin.

* 1953 , , Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer , Pantheon, 1981, p. 18

Here's a cure for all your troubles, here's an end to all distress. It's the old dope peddler, with his powdered happiness.''

(uncountable, slang) Information.

* What's the latest dope on the stock market?

(countable, slang) A stupid person.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* dope fiend * dope sheet * dope slap/dope-slap

Verb

(slang) To affect with drugs.

To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.).

(electronics) To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).

(slang) To use drugs.

Adjective

(er)

(slang) Great, amazing or extraordinary.

That party was dope !

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