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- Dictionarynoddy/ˈnɒdi/
noun
- 1. a foolish person. dated
- 2. a tropical tern with mainly dark-coloured plumage.
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May 27, 2011 · 1648 Gage West Ind. 101 In his carriage and experience in the World a simple noddy. 1682 N. O. tr. Boileau's Lutrin iii. 94 And there they sneaking stand like baffled Noddies . 1705 Hickeringill Priest-cr. ii. iii. 36 The cringing old Noddies and Cathedral-Men, that adore unlighted Candles at the Altar.
noddy as early as 1530, meaning “stupid person” but also a kind of stout-bodied tern, which brings us to. tomnoddy, from Tom (nickname for Thomas) + noddy, meaning “fool, dunce, noddy” but in Scotland also a kind of Atlantic puffin. It is like calling someone Jack Pumpkinhead or Joe Cool. When Tolkien uses it.
Nov 3, 2011 · Here's Eric Partridge from the Dict. of Slang and Unconv. English: sod. A sodomist: low coll.: Mid-C. 19-20; ob.-2.
Jan 30, 2023 · It is now a short step to “bunky/bunkie/bunkey” where the “y/ie/ey” is indicative of the diminutive or familiar. Obviously, if someone talks nonsense, they are a fool, and hence the meaning. Share. Improve this answer. answered Jan 30, 2023 at 11:19. Greybeard. 46k 5 43 143.
Autological word. A word is autological or homological if it describes itself. The common term for this is a backronym, a back-formation acronym. Also known as recursive acronym / metacronym/ recursive initialism, this is a fun way to coin names for new programming languages and such.
How does one correctly apply “in which”, “of which”, “at which”, “to which”, etc.? I'm confused with which one to apply when constructing sentences around these.
Aug 13, 2010 · The greeting How are you? is asking How are you doing in general? — How are you? I'm well. [Misunderstood the question.] because well as an adjective which means: in good health especially
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Oct 13, 2015 · 22. The Mmmm syllable can be several syllables, with many conventional meanings, like MMM-mmm or mmm-MMM, which can respectively be 'no' and 'yes' in many contexts. It's described phonetically as a syllabic voiced bilabial nasal continuant; in IPA it's [ṃ] (Unicode 1643; UTF8 E1 89 83; Latin small letter M with dot below).
1. AS OF would mean "at a certain time onward". AS AT would mean "at a precise time of event". AS FROM would mean "at a certain time onward" just like AS OF, but I still don't quite get it. That leads me to go back and use SINCE. Much simpler and people use it in writings and speeches.
