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Is noddy a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word noddy is a Scrabble US word. The word noddy is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Is noddy a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word noddy is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

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5-letter words (1 found)

NODDY,

4-letter words (1 found)

YOND,

3-letter words (9 found)

DOD,DON,DOY,NOD,NOY,ODD,ONY,YOD,YON,

2-letter words (7 found)

DO,NO,NY,OD,ON,OY,YO,

You can make 18 words from noddy according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of noddy

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Definitions and meaning of noddy

noddy

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnɒdi/

Etymology 1

Probably a shortening of noddypoll, an obsolete alteration of hoddypoll (“fumbling inept person”).

Noun

noddy (plural noddies)

  1. A stupid or silly person.
    • 1628, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Henry Cripps, 3rd edition, Part I, Section 2, Member 4, Subsection 4, p. 142,[1]
      Leo Decimus […] made […] soft fellowes, starke noddies; and such as we[r]e foolish, quite mad before hee left them.
Derived terms
  • niddy-noddy
Translations

Etymology 2

nod +‎ -y?

Noun

noddy (plural noddies)

  1. Any of several stout-bodied, gregarious terns of the genera Anous and Procelsterna, found in tropical seas.
  2. (dated) A small two-wheeled vehicle drawn by a single horse.
  3. 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.
  4. (obsolete, uncountable) An old card game.
  6. (MLE, slang) Fellatio.
Derived terms
  • brown noddy, Anous stolidus
  • sooty noddy, Anous tenuirostris
  • black noddy, Anous minutus
  • blue noddy, Procelsterna cerulea
  • grey noddy, Procelsterna albivitta
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Etymology 3

nod +‎ -y, coined by John Fiske in 1987.

Noun

noddy (plural noddies)

  1. (television) A cutaway scene of a television interviewer nodding, used to cover an editing gap in an interview.
    Synonym: nodder
    Noddies are often filmed after the interview in question has finished.

References

  • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

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