# noodly
## English
### Alternative forms

* noodley

### Etymology

From noodle +‎ -y.

### Adjective

noodly (comparative noodlier or more noodly, superlative noodliest or most noodly)
* Of or pertaining to noodles (the food).
** 1957, Moritz Jagendorf, Noodlehead Stories from Around the World, Vanguard Press, →ISBN, page 281:How did he get the money? In the noodliest way in the world.
** 1981, Good Housekeeping, page 345:NOODLIER THAN THE NORMAL NOODLE SOUP
** 2004, The New Yorker, page 63:My preferences tend toward beef noodle, chicken noodle—the noodlier soups.
** 2015, Tim Anderson, Nanban: Japanese Soul Food, Square Peg, →ISBN:I got the grant and set off on a four-week tour of some of Japan’s noodliest destinations.
** 2014, Leah Marie Brown, Faking It (The It Girl Series), Lyrical Press, →ISBN:They’re spicier and more noodly.
** 2017, Ann Louise Gittleman, The Complete New Fat Flush Companion Series, McGraw-Hill Education, →ISBN, page 176:If you prefer a more “noodly” texture, heat them in an ungreased skillet for a few minutes.
* (music, informal) Involving improvisation.
** 1997 August, Douglas Wolk, “CHUG / Metalon / Alias”, in CMJ New Music Monthly, number 48, page 12:Mitchell likes to play off O’Malley’s singing, doubling her voice with noodlier versions of her melodies or playing call-and-response with little shrieks and tweets of feedback.
** 1998 January 16, John Corbett, “Cradle of Electronica”, in Chicago Reader‎:He felt the pangs intensifying, as if the noodly, repetitive sounds were some lost language he'd known but forgotten, a dialect discarded or repressed.
** 2002 May 17, Peter Margasak, “Cornershop”, in Chicago Reader‎:Both of those albums contained lots of what's charitably called filler--in the form of noodly hip-hop-inspired loops that never went anywhere--and it took the band five years to release the new Handcream for a Generation (Wiija/Beggars Banquet).
** 2005, Paul Ford, Gary Benchley, Rock Star, Plume, →ISBN, page 290:For a moment I thought he might ask me if I would sing, and I was excited, and afraid of that possibility. But he said, “A little more noodly, you know? […]”
** 2007, Clinton Heylin, Babylon's Burning: From Punk to Grunge, Canongate, →ISBN, page 231:Mark P’s distaste was perhaps understandable on at least one level: this was two different bands, the original band that had demoed ‘Friction’, ‘Prove It’, ‘Venus De Milo’ and ‘Marquee Moon’ two years earlier with Island’s Richard Williams; and the altogether noodlier outfit, whose ‘Torn Curtain’, ‘Guiding Light’ and ‘Elevation’ seemed set in deliberate opposition to their original, earthier, aesthetic.
** 2008, Matt Pagett, The Best Dance Moves in the World…Ever!: 100 New and Classic Moves and How to Bust Them, San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 80:If the music becomes more “noodly,” why not try and trace the notes out in front of you with your fingers?
** 2009, T. Virgil Parker, Jessica Hopsicker, Carri Anne Yager, Sausage Factory: The College Crier’s Infamous Interviews of the Freaks and the Famous, Inkwater Press, →ISBN, page 233:That’s one of our goals in improvisation, to come up with something that seems previously composed as opposed to a loose improvisation that’s more noodly.
** 2019, Mark Radcliffe, Crossroads: In Search of the Moments That Changed Music, Canongate Books, →ISBN:They have the preeniest frontman, with his piano safely off towards the wings of the stage, the prettiest drummer, the noodliest guitarist and the quietest bass player.
* Floppy, droopy.
** 2006 May 12, Liz Armstrong, Heather Kenny, “Big Imagination”, in Chicago Reader‎:A lot of her clothes move strangely: one dress has an exaggerated, uneven bustle, upon which is layered a long skirt made of elastic, resulting in a motion that Glaum-Lathbury describes as "wiggly and noodly."