noddy

Any of several stout-bodied, gregarious terns of the genus Anous found in tropical seas, especially the brown noddy or common noddy (Anous stolidus).

(US, Newfoundland) Synonym of northern fulmar (“an Arctic seabird, Fulmarus glacialis”).

(UK, informal) A cutaway scene of a television interviewer nodding at the person being interviewed (or sometimes the interviewee nodding at the interviewer), often used to cover an editing gap in an interview.

(slang) Synonym of fellatio.

(Ireland, Scotland) A small two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse.

(historical) In full knave noddy: the jack or knave playing card.

(historical) In full noddy-fifteen: a certain card game related to cribbage.

(no longer used) A silly or stupid person; a fool, an idiot.

(slang, no longer used) Synonym of sexual intercourse.

(no longer used) In clockmaking and watchmaking: an inverted pendulum consisting of a short, vertical, flat spring which supports a rod having a bob at the top, which is used for detecting and measuring slight horizontal vibrations of a body to which it is attached.

(no longer used, rare) In at noddy: a state of being asleep.

Foolish, silly, stupid.

(no longer used) Drowsy, sleepy.

(no longer used, rare) Synonym of noddify (“to make (someone) into a noddy, to make a fool of”)