noddy (English, noun)
expansion: noddy (plural noddies)
Senses:
glosses: Any of several stout-bodied, gregarious terns of the genus Anous found in tropical seas, especially the brown noddy or common noddy (Anous stolidus).
topics: road
transport
glosses: A small two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse.
tags: Ireland
Scotland
historical
glosses: Synonym of fellatio.
tags: Multicultural-London-English
slang
glosses: Synonym of northern fulmar (“an Arctic seabird, Fulmarus glacialis”).
tags: Newfoundland
Northeastern
US
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A cutaway scene of a television interviewer nodding at the person being interviewed (or sometimes the interviewee nodding at the interviewer), often used to cover an editing gap in an interview.
tags: UK
informal
glosses: In clockmaking and watchmaking: an inverted pendulum consisting of a short, vertical, flat spring which supports a rod having a bob at the top, which is used for detecting and measuring slight horizontal vibrations of a body to which it is attached.
tags: obsolete
glosses: In at noddy: a state of being asleep.
tags: obsolete
rare
Forms:
form: noddies
tags: plural