subs. (common).—A simpleton. Also BILLY NOODLE. See BUFFLE and CABBAGE-HEAD.—ASH (1775); BEE (1823).
1843. W. T. MONCRIEFF, The Scamps of London, ii. 3. Half-and-half know-nothing NOODLE.
c. 1845. SYDNEY SMITH, Review of Bentham on Fallacies. The whole of these fallacies may be gathered together in a little oration which we will denominate the NOODLES’ oration.
1864. W. FORSYTH, Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero, xi. He was such a NOODLE that he did not know the value of what he had bought.
1892. G. M. FENN, The New Mistress, xv. Making a great NOODLE of yourself.
THE HOUSE OF NOODLES, subs. phr. (old).—See quot.
1823. BADCOCK (‘Jon Bee’), Dictionary of the Turf, etc., s.v. NOODLE. The HOUSE OF NOODLES, the Upper Nobs’ house at Palace Yard, Westminster.
Verb. (common).—To fool.
1829. The Lag’s Lament [FARMER, Musa Pedestris (1896), 111].
| He so prewailed on the treach’rous varmint | |
| That she was NOODLED by the Bow St. sarmint. |
