noddy

Meanings

Plural: noddies

Noun

• A stupid or silly person.
• Any of several stout-bodied, gregarious terns of the genera Anous and Procelsterna, found in tropical seas.
• A small two-wheeled vehicle drawn by a single horse.
• An inverted pendulum consisting of a short vertical flat spring which supports a rod having a bob at the top; used for detecting and measuring slight horizontal vibrations of a body to which it is attached.
• An certain card game.
• Fellatio.
• A cutaway scene of a television interviewer nodding, used to cover an editing gap in an interview.

Synonyms

nodder