noodly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: noodlier
form: more noodly
form: noodliest
form: most noodly
form: noodley
Etymology: From noodle + -y.
Senses: examples: text: How did he get the money? In the noodliest way in the world.
ref: 1957, Moritz Jagendorf, Noodlehead Stories from Around the World, Vanguard Press, →ISBN, page 281:
text: NOODLIER THAN THE NORMAL NOODLE SOUP
ref: 1981, Good Housekeeping, page 345:
text: My preferences tend toward beef noodle, chicken noodle—the noodlier soups.
ref: 2004, The New Yorker, page 63:
text: I got the grant and set off on a four-week tour of some of Japan’s noodliest destinations.
ref: 2015, Tim Anderson, Nanban: Japanese Soul Food, Square Peg, →ISBN:
text: They’re spicier and more noodly.
ref: 2014, Leah Marie Brown, Faking It (The It Girl Series), Lyrical Press, →ISBN:
text: If you prefer a more “noodly” texture, heat them in an ungreased skillet for a few minutes.
ref: 2017, Ann Louise Gittleman, The Complete New Fat Flush Companion Series, McGraw-Hill Education, →ISBN, page 176:
glosses: Of or pertaining to noodles (the food).
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1997 August, Douglas Wolk, “CHUG / Metalon / Alias”, in CMJ New Music Monthly, number 48, page 12:
text: 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.
ref: 1998 January 16, John Corbett, “Cradle of Electronica”, in Chicago Reader:
text: 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).
ref: 2002 May 17, Peter Margasak, “Cornershop”, in Chicago Reader:
text: 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?[…]”
ref: 2005, Paul Ford, Gary Benchley, Rock Star, Plume, →ISBN, page 290:
text: 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.
ref: 2007, Clinton Heylin, Babylon's Burning: From Punk to Grunge, Canongate, →ISBN, page 231:
text: If the music becomes more “noodly,” why not try and trace the notes out in front of you with your fingers?
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 2019, Mark Radcliffe, Crossroads: In Search of the Moments That Changed Music, Canongate Books, →ISBN:
topics: entertainment
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glosses: Involving improvisation.
examples: text: 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."
ref: 2006 May 12, Liz Armstrong, Heather Kenny, “Big Imagination”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Floppy, droopy.
Derived terms: noodliness