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Definition of Noodling
1. Noun. The practice and sport of noodling (fishing for catfish using the bare hands). ¹
2. Noun. Musical improvisation. ¹
3. Verb. (present participle of noodle) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Noodling
1. noodle [v] - See also: noodle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Noodling
Literary usage of Noodling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1824)
"Is it not better economy of time to go to sleep for half an hour, than to go on
noodling all day in a nerveless and semi-superannuated state, ..."
2. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1823)
"I had my irresistible sense of his preposterousness, and many a rich smile at
all his noodling ways ; but I manifested no sign, I trust, that could in any ..."
3. The United States of North America as They are: Not as They are Generally by Thomas Brothers (1840)
"... and creating a great number of fat offices to be filled by demagogues, who
have a knack of noodling the people while they pick their pockets. ..."
4. The Library of Agricultural and Horticultural Knowledge: With an Appendix on by John Baxter (1830)
"... and the silly checking of a really fearful horse with a sharp curb, as though
the intent were to break his jaw bone, it is truly a noodling, unthinking, ..."
5. The Private Diary of Richard, Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1862)
"... when the noodling and doodling began again, and all Trapani was placed at my
disposal. He was unmarried, or he would have offered me his wife. ..."
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