Word of the Day: NODDY-PATE

ETYMOLOGY
from noddy (a fool, a simpleton) + pate (the head)

EXAMPLE
“…Needy poor and noddy pate, never part …”

From: Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary
By James Howell, 1660
British or Old Cambrian Proverbs

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