Voddy vs Noddy - What's the difference?
voddy | noddy |
(UK, informal) Vodka.
* 1993 , Anne Weale, Footprints in the Sand?
* 2004 , Catherine Bateson, The Air Dancer of Glass?
* 2005 , Jack Leonard, Bad Altitude
*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". 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 nouns the difference between voddy and noddy
is that voddy is vodka while noddy is a stupid or silly person.voddy
English
Alternative forms
*voddieNoun
- '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.
- 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.
- “Oh yeah, I owe you for a bottle of voddy by the way.” “Why?” he asked, screwing his face up in puzzlement.
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
?Noun
(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.