noodle
Meaning
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- A string or flat strip of pasta or other dough, usually cooked (at least initially) by boiling, and served in soup or in a dry form mixed with a sauce and other ingredients.
- An object which is long and thin like a noodle (sense 1).
- (informal) An object which is long and thin like a noodle (sense 1).
- A dumpling cooked by boiling and served in soup; a knaidel or knödel.
- (slang) The penis.
Synonyms
Chinese vermicelli
Frequency
Hyphenated as
nood‧le
Pronounced as (IPA)
[ˈnuː.dl̩]
Etymology
In summary
Borrowed from Dutch noedel (“noodle”)), or from its etymon German Nudel (“piece of pasta, noodle”); further etymology uncertain, probably a variant of Knödel (“dumpling”), from Middle High German knödel (“dumpling; small knot”), and then either: * from knode, knote (“knot”) (from Old High German knodo, knoto (“knot”), perhaps ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *knappō (“knob; boy”)) + -el (diminutive suffix); or * from Ladin menùdli (“small dough dumpling in soup”), probably from Latin minutulus (“very small, tiny”) (in the sense of food chopped into small pieces), a diminutive of minūtus (“diminished; having been diminished”), the perfect passive participle of minuō (“to make smaller, diminish, lessen, reduce”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“little, small”). cognates * French nouille, noudle, nudeln * Swedish nudel
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