Noodling vs Moodling - What's the difference?
noodling | moodling |
(uncountable) The practice and sport of noodling (fishing for catfish using the bare hands).
(countable) Musical improvisation.
* 1991 , Gunther Schuller, The swing era: the development of jazz, 1930-1945
* Brenda Uhland (quoted in the sidebar of The Artist's Way , by Julia Cameron)
As verbs the difference between noodling and moodling
is that noodling is while moodling is .As a noun noodling
is (uncountable) the practice and sport of noodling (fishing for catfish using the bare hands).noodling
English
(wikipedia noodling)Noun
- Unlike Basie's increasingly repetitious piano noodlings , Young's melodic gestures had a way of staying fresh and inventive.
Derived terms
* noodlerVerb
(head)moodling
English
Verb
(head)- So you see, imagination needs moodling—long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
