nurdle noun 3verb 2forms 3 noun3 •A cylindrical pre-production plastic pellet used in manufacturing and packaging.Puffins on the Isle of May are nibbling on nurdles, the little nuggets that serve as raw materials for plastics manufacturing. — 2015 •A blob of toothpaste shaped like a wave, often depicted on toothpaste packaging.Each company is seeking the right to depict, and to stop the other from depicting, a “nurdle,” a wave-shaped toothpaste blob that sits on a toothbrush head. — 2010 •Such a shot. verb2 •To score runs by gently nudging the ball into vacant areas of the field. •To gently waffle or muse on a subject which one clearly knows little about. formsnurdled · nurdling · nurdles
