What's the difference between doddle and noddle?

Doddle


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gordon Clark, UK country manager of travel shopping consultancy Global Blue, predicts even higher spending in 2015: “Last year, spend by Arabic shoppers was up 43% for the period,” he says, “and as retailers and hotels improve their services to accommodate them, by bringing in Arabic-speaking staff and learning their culture’s customs, the UK is becoming an increasingly appealing shopping destination for them and we expect spend growth to remain strong.” Interestingly, even without explicit “Muslim-friendly” branding, it’s a doddle to shop for “modest” looks on the high street these days.
  • (2) And Hitchcock was a doddle compared to Capote, with his helium voice, the birdlike mincing, the urbane spikiness.
  • (3) The iPhone 3GS turns all that on its head: anything to do with the web, email, services such as Twitter and maps is a doddle; but things that are natural on a normal mobile phone, like sending a text or picture message, become fiddly.
  • (4) They have made the so-called Group of Death seem a doddle: and now Italy face a do-or-die showdown with Uruguay, who, as you may be aware, of good recent experience of such clashes.
  • (5) Doddle has 7,000 members who pay £5 a month for unlimited collections at its stores.
  • (6) ''As long as I get a clear view, the distance is a doddle.''
  • (7) If there were an abundance of fuel for mid-course corrections, then interplanetary navigation would be a doddle – indeed simpler than driving a car or ship, in that the destination is always in clear view.
  • (8) Moyles seemed astonished that a live news programme would have such documents, suggesting that hosting the show must be a "doddle" when you are told "the questions to be used in the interview and what the answers are going to be".
  • (9) Compared with the delicate gynaecological, urological and plastic surgery she uses for five-hour gender-reassignment operations, FGM-restorations are a doddle.
  • (10) The interim first-team coach's assistant, Eddie Newton, ended up departing the stadium with a smile and "this job's a doddle, isn't it?"
  • (11) Crushing sweet ginger biscuits into melted butter is a doddle.
  • (12) It suits him: people give him a lot of bananas, and clambering up to retrieve books from high shelves becomes a doddle.
  • (13) According to the TES, teachers posted in an online forum claimed iGCSE English papers were "an absolute doddle" and "way easier" than the domestic version.
  • (14) Delivering a lecture is a doddle compared to linking theory or research to real families, with everyone watching.
  • (15) People have looked to books like the Savoy Cocktail Book and 60% to 70% of the recipes use gin; vodka wasn’t available.” Gin’s heritage also helps explain demand, Stokes says: “A good story will always help you sell your product.” Plus, it can be made quickly: you can distill gin in just eight hours, a doddle compared to ageing a whisky for 10 to 12 years.
  • (16) Britons' enthusiasm for click-and-collect services has also seen Network Rail set up a joint venture with Travelex founder Lloyd Dorfman to invest £24m in 300 Doddle pick-up-points at stations.
  • (17) One of the sector’s more recent arrivals is parcel service Doddle , which has more than 30 outlets – it calls them “stores” – located mainly at urban train stations in places such as London, Brighton, Glasgow, Manchester, Norwich and Southampton.
  • (18) Perhaps it was felt that a decision on airport capacity would be a doddle for a man who has dealt with all that.
  • (19) They’re never going to be nicking this stuff without it having a place to go to already arranged.” As for getting it out of the country these days: “It’s a doddle.
  • (20) Handle this ordeal and running Britain is a doddle.

Noddle


Definition:

  • (n.) The head; -- used jocosely or contemptuously.
  • (n.) The back part of the head or neck.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You’re practically handing your personal information over to a fraudster,” says John Cannon, fraud and ID director at credit report provider Noddle.
  • (2) The company said it was working with credit reporting service Noddle to offer customers free credit monitoring alerts for 12 months.

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