noodle: Meaning and Definition of

noo•dle

1. a narrow strip of unleavened egg dough that has been rolled thin and dried, boiled, and served alone or in soups, casseroles, etc.; a ribbon-shaped pasta.

noo•dle

1. the head.
2. a fool or simpleton.

noo•dle

1. to improvise a musical passage in a casual manner, esp. as a warm-up exercise.
2. to noodle with numbers as a hobby.
1. to play; toy:to noodle with numbers as a hobby.
2. to improvise, experiment, or think creatively:The writers noodled for a week and came up with a better idea for the ad campaign.

1. She denied that she had noodled the statistics to get a favorable result.
1. to manipulate or tamper with:She denied that she had noodled the statistics to get a favorable result.
2. to make or devise freely as an exercise or experiment (sometimes fol. by up):The architects noodled up a model of a solar house.
2. to play, experiment, or improvise.