"Let me noodle it"

[Laurence Horn]

At 3:18 PM -0500 1/24/01, Siddharth Suri wrote:
>"Let me noodle it"
>
>Someone said this to me today and I was curious if anyone knows
>where this expression originated from.
>
>thanks
>suri.

I'd guess it means 'consider, think about', and that it's a
zero-derivation from "noodle" as a noun = 'head, brain, mind'.  Now
as for the origin of this, the AHD4 suggests it was an alteration of
"noddle", which is a Middle English word for the head.

larry
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