noodle

CEFRA2

[ˈnuː.dl̩]

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A long, thin strip of pasta.

  2. 02

    verb

    To think about or work on something casually.

Examples

  • There's a fly in the noodle broth.

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

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
3

Also pronounced

  • [ˈnʉː.dl̩]
  • /ˈnu.dəl/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

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

  2. A 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.

  3. A dumpling cooked by boiling and served in soup; a knaidel or knödel.

More examples

In context

  • “Noodle that thought around for a while,” said Dr. Johnson to his Biblical Interpretations class.

  • She slurped a long noodle up out of her soup.

  • She is cooking noodles for dinner.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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...