Category:Noddy

Nod"dy, n.; pl. Noddies. Etym: [prob. fr. nod to incline the head, Either as in assent, or from drowsiness.]

1. A simpleton; a fool. L'estrange.

2. (zoöl.) (a) any tern of the genus anous, as a. stolidus. (b) the arctic fulmar (fulmarus glacialis). Sometimes also applied to Other sea birds.

3. An old game at cards. Halliwell.

4. A small two-wheeled one-horse vehicle.

5. An inverted pendulum consisting of a short vertical flat spring Which supports a rod having a bob at the top; -- used for detecting And measuring slight horizontal vibrations of a body to which it is Attached.