(n.) A simpleton; a blockhead; a stupid person; a ninny.
(n.) A thin strip of dough, made with eggs, rolled up, cut into small pieces, and used in soup.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Jonathan Lovekin for the Observer Nigel Slater's cold noodle and tomato salad makes a nice grownup supper with leftovers for the packed lunch.
(2) In the song Christmas and Owen argue that if women were a Pot Noodle it would be "farewell to nagging and random tantrums".
(3) There's a temptation to supplement that with Pot Noodles.
(4) The buyer, Monde Nissin – best known for its instant noodles – tabled its winning bid after Quorn Foods had enjoyed its best-ever six months, with sales rising by 7% across the 23 countries where its products are sold.
(5) In the middle of the afternoon its few occupants – a noodle joint, a coffee shop, a Japanese restaurant advertising “suisi”– are padlocked.
(6) The owner hauled out said blender and then, from the back of the cupboard, a beaten up old colander with a stray piece of noodle still stuck to the rim.
(7) Our office bearer has a hi-fi in that studio office and is as likely to be playing the new 45 from the hardcore band Leather or electro drone by Tim Hecker as he is to be playing a deep cut of Cincinnati soul or handbag disco or improv guitar noodlings, whether newly released from Oren Ambarchi or 30 years old from the Takoma label.
(8) Five were prepared with a potato and wheat base (noodle) and the sixth with a quinua-oats base.
(9) Quorn was recently bought for £550m by a Philippines noodle firm and has plans for global expansion.
(10) But now they do and they want rice, noodles, candies, Coke, they want everything!"
(11) Lacking long-term shared goals, many are turning to what she terms "Pot Noodle love" – easy or instant gratification, in the form of casual sex, short-term trysts and the usual technological suspects: online porn, virtual-reality "girlfriends", anime cartoons.
(12) 3 Rehydrate the noodles by soaking in boiling water for 2-3 minutes.
(13) All the deceased ate the noodles from one supplier.
(14) The Red Cross warns that the city faces a "potential humanitarian crisis" of water and mosquito-borne illnesses, and many shops have run out of essentials like bottled water, eggs and instant noodles.
(15) In a nearby shopping district, protesters broke windows at about 10 Japanese-style noodle shops and bars - many of them Chinese-owned.
(16) West Africa’s new convenience food is Chinese instant noodles , not fish and chips, and the supermarkets that sell them are South African-owned.
(17) Toss the noodles through the sauce, scatter with sesame and spring onions.
(18) An increase in EC risk was seen for consumption of millet soup with noodles, and also with certain sociopsychological factors, in both areas.
(19) A minute ago, there was only a fruit salad, a watermelon, and some pre-cooked rice noodles, only modestly reduced from £1.20 to 71p.
(20) We head off to the Wagamama noodle bar, which is so loud we can hardly hear each other.
Poodle
Definition:
(n.) A breed of dogs having curly hair, and often showing remarkable intelligence in the performance of tricks.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a 12-year-old poodle, tumor cells with the following abnormalities were found: trisomy 1, monosomy X and two marker chromosomes.
(2) Three breeds (beagle, boxer, and golden retriever) had a significantly greater risk for thyroid carcinoma than did all dogs combined, whereas miniature and toy poodles had a low risk.
(3) Talking last month on his late-night HBO show Last Week Tonight , Oliver ridiculed Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha's "dystopian nightmare" of a government, called Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn a "buffoon" and an "idiot", and ridiculed a clip of a contentious home video of the prince and his semi-naked wife at a poolside birthday party for their pet poodle Foo Foo.
(4) Insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) I and II were decreased 71 and 44% respectively in miniature compared to standard size poodles.
(5) A case of chronic granulocytic leukemia was diagnosed in a ten year old miniature poodle and was observed for four and one half years.
(6) Its inaction over allegations of widespread phone hacking at the News of the World led it to being branded a "toothless poodle".
(7) Systemic lupus erythematosus with polymyositis and polyarthritis was diagnosed in a 7-year-old female Standard Poodle.
(8) Data is presented of the post-mortem macroscopic and microscopic examination of two Toy Poodles with multiple enchondromatosis (Ollier syndrome).
(9) But you can't dismiss the wealth tax and say at the same time that Clegg is a Tory poodle, although many will.
(10) At necropsy, a 15-year-old male Standard Poodle had a 6-cm diameter mass in the perianal region.
(11) The mean age was 7.0 years for all breeds, 5.1 years for the Cocker Spaniel, and 9.0 years for the Poodle breeds.
(12) Fluorescein angiographic findings in 7 carriers and 7 homozygotes of a recessively inherited disease, generalized progressive retinal atrophy of the poodle, are described in detail and comparisons with 24 healthy control poodles are presented.
(13) A three-year-old poodle showed changes in its behaviour, which were so marked as to induce the owner to inquire after the possible use of spectacles for her dog.
(14) Full-field electroretinograms (ERGs) were recorded between the ages of 4 and 34 months from 8 miniature French poodles with inherited progressive rod-cone degeneration (PRCD) and from 11 normal miniature poodles.
(15) They shouldn't be given the chance to turn it into a poodle once again.
(16) Miniature and Toy Poodles, Pomeranians, and Shetland Sheepdogs were identified as being at high risk for PDA.
(17) In the present study, the rod outer segments of young prcd affected miniature poodles and normal dogs have been compared with respect to the incorporation of intravitreally injected [3H]palmitic acid.
(18) Meanwhile the plush London offices of all his overlapping enterprises are right across from the US embassy in Grosvenor Square, as if to taunt critics who claim he is America's poodle.
(19) The cytological changes in these Poodle pups were notably different from those reported in earlier ultrastructural studies of canine inherited cerebellar degenerations.
(20) It was concluded that the condition had similarities to both congenital dyserythropoietic disorders and true megaloblastic conditions, but until further investigations are reported it might be wise to refer to it as "bone marrow dyscrasia" in poodles.