nodle.html - See: LAND OF NOD.

nodle.html - {n.} Less than casual acquaintance. * /I have never spoken to the chancellor; we have only a nodding acquaintance./

nodle.html - v. & n.
--v.

(nodded, nodding)
1 intr. incline one's head slightly and briefly in greeting, assent, or command.
2 intr. let one's head fall forward in drowsiness; be drowsy.
3 tr. incline (one's head).
4 tr. signify (assent etc.) by a nod.
5 intr. (of flowers, plumes, etc.) bend downwards and sway, or move up and down.
6 intr. make a mistake due to a momentary lack of alertness or attention.
7 intr. (of a building etc.) incline from the perpendicular (nodding to its fall).

--n.

a nodding of the head.

get the nod US be chosen or approved. nodding acquaintance (usu. foll. by with) a very slight acquaintance with a person or subject. nod off colloq. fall asleep. nod through colloq.
1 approve on the nod.
2 Brit. Parl. formally count (a Member of Parliament) as if having voted when unable to do so. on the nod colloq.
1 with merely formal assent and no discussion.
2 on credit.

noddingly adv. [ME nodde, of unkn. orig.]

nodle.html - n.
colloq. the head. [ME nodle, of unkn. orig.]

nodle.html - v.tr.
nod or wag (one's head). [NOD + -LE(4)]

nodle.html - n.
(pl. -ies)
1 a simpleton.
2 any of various tropical sea birds of the genus Anous, resembling terns. [prob. f. obs. noddy foolish, which is perh. f. NOD]