Noodling or Hogging (Handfishing)

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 11:48:10PM -0500, Grant Barrett wrote:
> Antedatings are likely, but I was able to take "noodling" back to 1916
> with little effort:
>
> http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/noodle/

Thanks to the gentleman from Missouri for this. Also, this is
already in OED (though the entry was finished before we had
access to Newspaperarchive, so our earliest was a 1937 from
American Speech).

Jesse Sheidlower