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noddy

noun

Meaning

  1. A stupid or silly person.
  2. Any of several stout-bodied, gregarious terns of the genera Anous and Procelsterna, found in tropical seas.
  3. A small two-wheeled vehicle drawn by a single horse.
  4. 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.
  5. An old card game.
  6. A cutaway scene of a television interviewer nodding, used to cover an editing gap in an interview.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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