1628, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Henry Cripps, 3rd edition, Part I, Section 2, Member 4, Subsection 4, p. 142,
Leo Decimus […] made […] soft fellowes, starke noddies; and such as we[r]e foolish, quite mad before hee left them.

Were not Those blessed days when 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 […]

Why, what a noddy have I been, to take this strapper always for a girl!

At last the people in a body
To the Town Hall came flocking;
“’Tis clear,” cried they, “our Mayor’s a noddy; […]”

We saw no Land this day, but saw a great many Snakes and some Whales. We saw also some Boobies, and Noddy-birds; and in the night caught one of these last. […] The Top or Crown of the Head of this Noddy was Coal-black, having also small black streaks round about and close to the Eyes; and round these streaks on each side, a pretty broad white circle. The Breast, Belly, and under-part of the Wings of this Noddy were white: and the Back and upper-part of its Wings of a faint black or smoak Colour.

The Rocks and outer Lines of the Island, are the Haunts of variety of Sea-Birds, especially Boobies and Noddies […]. The Noddies are smaller and flat footed also.

A cloud of sea birds hovered overhead, the gannets diving with folded wings, while the black noddy-terns fluttered down in companies each time the fish drove the small fry to the surface.

Coun[sellor]. What do you mean by a new language?
O’Dogh[erty]. Why a new kind of a London English, that’s no more like our Irish English, than a coxcomb’ fine gilded chariot like a Glassmanogue noddy.

'By Jove, I think one of us must go into town. […]'
'Let's see Nutter—you or I must go—we'll take one of these songster's "noddies."'

Let ’hem embrace more frugal pastimes. Why should not the thrifty and right worshipful game of Post and Pair content ’hem? Or the witty invention of Noddie, for counters? or God make them rich, at the Tables? but Masking, and Revelling?

NODDY. An old game of cards conjectured to be the same as cribbage.

Noddies are often filmed after the interview in question has finished.

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