Noddy /(?)/

Nod·dy

Noddy

n.

pl. Noddies

  1. A simpleton; a fool.
  2. Any tern of the genus Anous, as Anous stolidus. (Zool.)
  3. An old game at cards.
  4. A small two-wheeled one-horse vehicle.
  5. An inverted pendulum consisting of a short vertical flat spring which supports a rod having a bob at the top; -- used for detecting and measuring slight horizontal vibrations of a body to which it is attached.