noddy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: card-games
games
Etymology: Noun sense 1 is possibly from nod (“to incline the head up and down; to gradually fall asleep”) + -y (suffix forming diminutive nouns or familiar names); or a shortening of noddypoll, an obsolete alteration of hoddypoll (“fumbling, inept person”).
The origin of noun sense 2 is uncertain; it is possibly derived from sense 1. Compare muggins (“fool, idiot; card game based on building in suits or matching exposed cards, the object being to get rid of one’s cards”).
The origin of the adjective is uncertain; it is possibly also from nod (verb) + -y (suffix meaning ‘of or relating to’ forming adjectives).
The verb is derived from noun sense 1.
Base: nod
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: noddies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A silly or stupid person; a fool, an idiot.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
examples: I graunt for my parte by fayth of my body / why where the deuyll is this horeſon nody
Hum[phrey]. If it be ſo, my friend, you vſe me fine, / VVhat do you thinke I am? / Iasp[er]. An arrant noddie / Hum. A vvord of obliquie, novv by Gods bodie, / I'le tell thy maiſter for I knovv thee vvell.
Leo Decimus [Pope Leo X] that ſcoffing Pope, […] took an extraordinary delight in humoring of ſilly fellovves, and to put gulleries vpon them, […] he made ſoft fellovves ſtarke noddies, and ſuch as vvere fooliſh, quite mad before hee left them.
VVere not Thoſe bleſſed days vvhen our Divines had Saleſmen, and Mechaniques for their Tryers; and the Laity a ſupercilious Company of Claſſical, and Congregational Noddys for the Inſpectours of our Lives and Manners: […]
VVhy, vvhat a noddy have I been, to take this ſtrapper alvvays for a girl!
[T]hough I am but a simple noddy, / I think one Shakespear [William Shakespeare] puts the same thought in / The mouth of some one in his plays so doating, / Which many people pass for wits by quoting.
At last the people in a body / To the Town Hall came flocking: / "'Tis clear," cried they, "our Mayor's a noddy; / And as for our Corporation—shocking[…]"
gloss: In full knave noddy: the jack or knave playing card.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
examples: The ſpout of ſport, and follies turtle Doue, / Noddie turn'd vp, all made, yet loſe the tricke.
You vvant four, and I tvvo, and my Deal: Novv, Knave noddy—no, Hearts be Trumps.
gloss: In full noddy-fifteen: a certain card game related to cribbage.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
examples: [W]ell let not me take you at Noddy anie more, leaſt I preſent you to the pariſh for a gamſter, this is the ninth ſet that you haue loſt, and yet you will not leaue off.
Let 'hem embrace more frugal pastimes. VVhy ſhould not the thriftie and right vvorſhipfull game of Poſt and payre content 'hem? Or the vvittie inuention of Noddie, for counters? or God make them rich, at the Tables? but Masking, and Reuelling?
[H]e told me he had him at command when he was a page, but by plaieing to [too] much at primeroe and noddy he loſt Time and his monie to [too].
An old game of cards, conjectured to be the same as cribbage. […] Noddy is now played as follows: Any number can play—the cards are all dealt out—the elder hand plays one, (of which he hath a pair or a prial if a good player)—saying or singing "there's a good card for thee," passing it to his right hand neighbour—the person next in succession who holds its pair covers it, saying "there's still a better than he;" and passes both onward—the person holding the third of the sort (ace, six, queen, or what not) puts it on with "there's the best of all three:" and the holder of the fourth crowns all with the emphatic—"And there is Niddy-Noddeee."—He wins the tack, turns it down, and begins again. He who is first out receives from his adversaries a fish (or a bean, as the case may be) for each unplayed card.
gloss: In full noddy-fifteen: a certain card game related to cribbage.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
historical
obsolete
slang
uncountable
examples: I left her at Cardes, ſhee'll ſit vp till you come, becauſe ſhee'll haue you play a game at Noddie; […]
Derived words: hoddy-noddy
niddy-noddy
nod
noddify
noddypoop
noddyship
poop-noddy
supernodical
supernodify
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