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Noodling vs Moodling - What's the difference?

noodling | moodling |

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

Noun

  • (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
  • Unlike Basie's increasingly repetitious piano noodlings , Young's melodic gestures had a way of staying fresh and inventive.

    Derived terms

    * noodler

    Verb

    (head)
  • moodling

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • * Brenda Uhland (quoted in the sidebar of The Artist's Way , by Julia Cameron)
  • So you see, imagination needs moodling—long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.