Noddy may refer to:
People
* Noddy, nickname of Australian rugby league player
Brett Kimmorley
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Noddy Holder, English musician and actor, best known as vocalist and guitarist with Slade
Fictional characters
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Noddy (character), a wooden man who lives in Toyland, created by children's author Enid Blyton
* Noddy, nickname of Nicodemus Boffin, from the novel ''
Our Mutual Friend
''Our Mutual Friend'', written in 1864–1865, is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining savage satire with social analysis. It centres on, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller, quo ...
'' by Charles Dickens
Arts and entertainment
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''Noddy'' (TV series), a children's program 1998–2000
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Noddy (card game), a 16th-century English ancestor of cribbage
Vehicles
* Noddy, a small, usually two-wheeled, one-horse
hackney carriage formerly used in Ireland and Scotland
* Noddy bike, nickname for the
Velocette LE
The Velocette LE is a motorcycle made by Veloce Ltd from 1948 to 1971. The designation LE stood for "little engine". Used by over fifty British Police forces, the police riders became known as "Noddies" because they were required to nod to s ...
motorcycles formerly used by the British police
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Noddy (log canoe)
The ''Noddy'' is a Chesapeake Bay log canoe, built in 1930, by Oliver Duke in Royal Oak, Maryland, She measures 27'-6" long, with a beam of 6'-4". Her log hull remains unglassed, is painted white, and she races under No. 1. She one of the last 2 ...
, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985
Other uses
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Noddy (camera)
Noddy was a camera system used for generating Station identification, idents for the BBC One and BBC Two television channels from late 1963 A detailed account of the history of BBC Television Centre including a brief look at Presentation ...
, a camera system use by the BBC 1963–1985
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Noddy (bird)
The noddies, forming the genus ''Anous'', is a genus of seabirds in family Laridae which also contains the gulls, terns and skimmers. The genus contains five species.
The noddies inhabit tropical oceans and have a worldwide distribution, rangin ...
, several species of tropical seabirds of the family Sternidae in the genera ''Anous'', ''Procelsterna'', and ''Gygis''
* Noddy, or
nod shot
A nod shot, noddy headshot or noddy is a type of camera reaction shot used in recorded news or current affairs interviews. They consist of nods and other similar "listening gestures" made by the interviewer. If only one camera is available at the i ...
, a video production technique used to create the illusion of a seamless dialogue
* Noddy, an application for the
Memotech MTX
The Memotech MTX500, MTX512 and RS128 are a series of Zilog Z80A processor-based home computers released by Memotech in 1983 and 1984.
Design
The MTX500 had 32 KB of RAM, the MTX512 had 64KB, and the RS128 had 128KB. Although the Z80A could ...
series of microcomputers
* Noddy suit, nickname for a type of
NBC suit
An NBC (nuclear, biological, chemical) suit, also called a chemsuit, chem suit, or chemical suit is a type of military personal protective equipment. NBC suits are designed to provide protection against direct contact with and contamination by r ...
with a pointed hood used by the British Armed Forces
* NODDY, codename for a British
Secret Intelligence Service
The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6 ( Military Intelligence, Section 6), is the foreign intelligence service of the United Kingdom, tasked mainly with the covert overseas collection and analysis of human intelligenc ...
operation to penetrate the Polish security establishment in the early 1960s
* Noddy (as an adjective)
Cumbernauld
Cumbernauld (; gd, Comar nan Allt, meeting of the streams) is a large town in the historic county of Dunbartonshire and council area of North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is the tenth most-populous locality in Scotland and the most populated t ...
ian in
Glaswegian Slang e.g. Noddy Land, Noddy News
See also
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Noddies (disambiguation)
Noddies could refer to:
* Noddy (tern)
* Noddy (TV interview technique)
* Velocette LE riding British Police motorcyclists
See also
* Noddy (disambiguation)
* Nods (disambiguation)
Nods may refer to:
*Nods, Switzerland
Nods () is a municipal ...
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NOD (disambiguation)
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