Meaning & use

noddle

noun·Advanced

An informal, old-fashioned word for a person's head or brain.

See it in a sentence

Use your noddle and figure out a better way to fix this problem.

He scratched his noddle, trying to remember where he had left his keys.

A note on using this word

Noddle is a dated, humorous British informalism, mainly heard in phrases like 'use your noddle.'

Words with a similar meaning

headnoggin

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