How do you use the word "noodle" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "noodle": There's a fly in the noodle broth. You're right. The noodle broth here is a bit expensive.

Noodle Meaning

[ˈnuː.dl̩]

Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA string or flat strip of pasta or other dough, usually cooked (at least initially) by boiling, and served in soup or in a dry form mixed with a sauce and other ingredients.

nounAn object which is long and thin like a noodle (sense 1).

Sentence Examples

There's a fly in the noodle broth.

You're right. The noodle broth here is a bit expensive.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

bean attic dome

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

She carefully picked up a single ____ from her hot chicken soup.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

I decided to ____ over the problem for a few days before making a final decision.

Word Origin & History

Borrowed from Dutch noedel (“noodle”), or from its etymon German Nudel (“piece of pasta, noodle”); further etymology uncertain, probably a variant of Knödel (“dumpling”), from Middle High German knödel (“dumpling; small knot”), and then either: * from knode, knote (“knot”) (from Old High German knodo, knoto (“knot”), perhaps ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *knappō (“knob; boy”)) + -el (diminutive suffix); or * from Ladin menùdli (“small dough dumpling in soup”), probably from Latin minutulus (“very small, tiny”) (in the sense of food chopped into small pieces), a diminutive of minūtus (“diminished; having been diminished”), the perfect passive participle of minuō (“to make smaller, diminish, lessen, reduce”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“little, small”). Cognates * French nouille, noudle, nudeln * Swedish nudel

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"He settled for the noodles and then after watching The Jungle Book twice on video it was time for beddy-bys." — 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 148:

"One brought two boxes of instant mami noodles." — 2003, Ma. Romina M. Gonzalez, Welostit and Other Stories, page 51:

"Laura told me the names of all the actors and actreſſes as they preſented themſelves; and, not contented vvith this, the ſatyrical baggage deſcrib'd their characters nicely, as they appeared. "This here (ſaid ſhe) is a noodle—That fellovv is a brute:[…]."" — 1751, [Alain-René Lesage], “Which is as Short as the Foregoing”, in [Tobias George Smollett], transl., The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane. […], 3rd edition, volume I, London: […] J. Osborn, […], →OCLC, book III, page 244:

"You vvrong me, noodle (boxes his ears). Novv then to the point." — 1796 March 25 (first performance), J[ames] C. Cross, “The Village Doctor, a Burletta. […]”, in Parnassian Bagatelles: Being a Miscellaneous Collection of Poetical Attempts. […], London: […] Burton and Co. […]; [for] Bellamy, […], published 1796, →OCLC, page 140:

"[T]hou would'st fling thy cuckoldy steeple-hat one way, and that bloodthirsty long-sword another, and trip like the noodles of Hogs-Norton, when the pigs play on the organ." — 1826, [Walter Scott], chapter III, in Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC, page 67:

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