Noun: noodle
| Singular | noodle |
| Plural | noodles |
Sample Sentences
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She slurped a long noodle up out of her soup.
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She is cooking noodles for dinner.
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He settled for the noodles and then after watching The Jungle Book twice on video it was time for beddy-bys. [1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 148:]
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One brought two boxes of instant mami noodles. [2003, Ma. Romina M. Gonzalez, Welostit and Other Stories, page 51:]
Nouns inflected like noodle
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. 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:
2. * 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
3. * 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”).
4. Cognates
5. * French nouille, noudle, nudeln
6. * Swedish nudel See: Dutch Nouns '
noedel', German Nouns '
Nudel', Latin Nouns '
minutulus', French Nouns '
nouille', Swedish Nouns '
nudel'.
Verbs referencing "noodle"
Italian Nouns
noodle.