NODDY


Meaning of NODDY in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈnä-dē ]

noun

( plural noddies )

Etymology: probably short for obsolete noddypoll, alteration of hoddypoll fumbling inept person

Date: circa 1530

1. : a stupid person

2. : any of several stout-bodied terns (especially genus Anous ) of warm seas

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.