"Let me noodle it"

[Jesse Sheidlower]

> The one thing that strikes me about Siddharth's example is that I do not
> happen to have heard the verb construed as transitive. But there's no reason
> why a transitive contruction wouldn't have emerged quite naturally. And now
> I bet someone will now post tons of evidence to the list of "to noodle"
> taking a direct object!

I'll just direct people to HDAS, which has evidence of transitive
_noodle_ from 1950 onwards.

Jesse Sheidlower