Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The puffin or sea-parrot. Also
tommy-noddy , and tom-norry or tummy-norie. See cut underpuffin . - noun A blockhead; a dolt; a dunce; a fool.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.), Prov.Eng. A sea bird, the puffin.
- noun A fool; a dunce; a noddy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
puffin . - noun A
fool ordunce .
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Examples
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Enough of the tomnoddy nonsense with its runes and galactic join-the-dots nincompoopery.
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I call it plumb equal to tellin 'you you're a reg'lar tomnoddy to say a fellar's uther' clever 'or' good. '
The Brass Bound Box Evelyn Raymond 1876
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